Well, you expect something, and already the heart throbs,--and do not stop it; for pity does not close her eye upon the unfortunate, even where sin has contributed to the misery of the sufferer. But here you cannot help yourself: the inevitable recoil from cruelty will open the issues of compassion whether you will or no; and so strangely formed are we, that here you may be the more willing to acknowledge the soft emotion, that Mary's eyes reeled with delight when she saw Helen M'Dougal place upon the table a supply of whisky, which to her share would transcend even the necessities of "the want" after the fever. There was on this occasion no necessity for the siren song to charm into confidence where the bottle was, a band more hallowed, in the estimation of the guest, than the pledges of love. Neither Hare's sardonic jollity nor Burke's pathos was needed where the work was apparently so easy; and they were no longer neophytes, but adepts, not only in confidence, but manipulation. Yea, it was the work of apprentices, and they were journeymen; nor was it necessary that they should concern themselves with more than filling the glass and contemplating the imbodied value--ten pounds--as, by her fading energies and impending unconsciousness, it assumed its full proportions. All is ready--the drooping head--the closing eye--the languid, helpless body. The women get the hint. They knew the unseemliness of being spectators--nay, they were delicate. A repetition of the former scene, only with even less resistance. Hare holds again the lips, and Burke presses his twelve stone weight. Scarcely a sigh; but on a trial if dead, a long gurgling indraught. More required--and all is still in that dark room "with the window looking out on the dead wall." After a preliminary visit to the College, where arrangement was made for the reception, the colleagues carried their burden, at an hour approaching to twelve, to its destination. As usual, it was examined before payment,--the amount of which, in this instance, we do not know; but, whether from some want of success, consequent on the increased watchfulness over cemeteries, attending the midnight adventures of our friends Merrylees and the "Spune," or from a greater avidity for science on the part of the surgeons, it is certain that, as the supply from Log's lodgings increased, the value given for a burden became greater, amounting, in some instances, to £12 or £14.