That wont pay;
’Tis a shocking bad way
To leave off so abruptly. I wanted to hear
A great many particulars: first, I’m not clear,
Is the young woman killed?” “Be at rest on that head,
She’s completely defunct, most excessively dead.
Blaker’s shot did the business; she’d just strength to fly,
Reached her home, rang the bell, and then sank down to die.”
“Poor girl! really it’s horrid! However I knew it
Could come to no good—I felt certain she’d rue it—