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But the gentle gray, unprepared for the crash of a tree that was being

felled on the edge of Halsell wood, took fright, and caused a worse

fright to Rosaate

could not show his anger towards her, but he was rather bearish to the

Captain, whose visit naturally soon came to an end

In all future conversations on the subject, Rosamond was mildly certain

that the ride had made no difference, and that if she had stayed at

home the same symptoms would have come on and would have ended in the

sa like the!"--but he secretly wondered

over the terrible tenacity of this

within him an amazed sense of his powerlessness over Rosae and ined, a shrine to consult on all occasions, was siarded Rosamond's cleverness as

precisely of the receptive kind which beca to find out what that cleverness as the shape into

which it had run as into a close network aloof and independent No one

quicker than Rosamond to see causes and effects which lay within the

track of her own tastes and interests: she had seen clearly Lydgate's

preeinatively