To resolutions; and these being ripe and ready,
Then giv’st them birth and brings’t them forth to action.—Denham.
The means that fortune yields must be embraced
And not neglected; else if fortune would,
And we will not, her offers we refuse,
And miss the means of action and success.—Shakspeare.
She whom they had sought so vainly, lay there, doubled up, on the floor, and partly covered by the dropping folds of the curtain.
“Oh, master! Oh, sir! She is dead! She is murdered! She is, indeed, sir, and the thieves have been in and done it!” cried Pina, recovering her voice and wringing her hands in grief and terror.
And her dreadful words seemed to be true.
Mr. Lyon could not speak. He silently lifted the lifeless form, and shuddering to see how helplessly the head and limbs fell over his arms, he bore it into the drawing-room, and laid it on the sofa.