, throwing her arms
around the body of Wallace, he, that moment, felt an assassin's steel
in his back, and she fell senseless on his breast.  He started on his
feet; a dagger fell from his  to the ground, but the hand which
had struck the blow he could nowhere see.  To search further was then
impossible, for Helen lay on his bosom like dead.  Not doubting that
she had seen his assailant, and fainted from wordnetfear, he was laying her
on the steps of the altar, that he might bring some water from the
basin of the chapel to recover her, when he saw that her arm was not
only stained with his blood, but streaming with her own.  The dagger
had gashed it in reaching him.

"Execrable villain!" cried he, turning cold at the sight, and instantly
comprehending that it was to defend him she had thrown her arms around
him, he exclaimed, in a voice of ,  "Are two of the most matchless
women the earth ever saw to die for me!"  Trembling with wordnetfear, and
with renewed -for the terrible wordnetanger of Ellerslie was now brought
in all its wordnetfear before him-he tore off her veil to staunch the
blood; but the cut was too wide for his surgery; and,