Carmilla

Two or three minutes at most I think she remained thus employed, then

she turned, and a few steps brought her to where her daughter lay,

supported by Madame Perrodon. She kneeled beside her for a moment and

whispered, as Madame supposed, a little benediction in her ear; then

hastily kissing her she stepped into her carriage, the door was closed,

the footmen in stately liveries jumped up behind, the outriders spurred

on, the postilions cracked their whips, the horses plunged and broke

suddenly into a furious canter that threatened soon again to become a

gallop, and the carriage whirled away, followed at the same rapid pace

by the two horsemen in the rear.