Excerpt from St. George and St. Michael, Vol. 3 of 3 Thou hast left thy doublet behind thee, ' she said, 'and I warrant me the cake I gave thee in the pouch thereof! Hadst thou eaten of that, thou hadst not come to this pass.' But Richard scarcely heard her voice. His one mental consciousness was the longing desire to lay his aching head on the pillow, and end all effort. Finding his wound appeared very tolerably dressed, Mrs. Rees would not disturb the bandages. She gave him a cooling draught, and watched by him till he fell asleep. Then She tidied her house, dressed herself, and got everything-in order for nursing him She would have sent at once to Redware to let his father know where and in what condition he was, but not a Single person came near the cottage the whole day, and She dared not leave him before the fever had subsided. He raved a good deal, generally in the delusion that he was talking to Dorothy - who sought to kill him, and to whom he kept giving directions, at one time how to guide the knife to reach his heart, at another how to mingle her poison SO that it should act with speed and certainty. At length one fine evening in early autumn, when the red sun shone level through the window Of the little room where he lay, and made a red glory on the wall, he came to himself a little. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.