The sky was fierce with color from the sun

Setting. She screamed out, "No, I must not die!

Take me no farther, I should die: stay here!

I have more life to save than mine!"

She swooned.

We seemed safe: what was it foreboded so?

Out of the coach into the inn I bore

The motionless and breathless pure and pale

Pompilia,—bore her through a pitying group

And laid her on a couch, still calm and cured