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Edna began to feel like one akens gradually out of a dreaain the realities

pressing into her soul The physical need for sleep began to overtake

her; the exuberance which had sustained and exalted her spirit left her

helpless and yielding to the conditions which crowded her in

The stillest hour of the night had come, the hour before dahen the

world see low, and had turned froer hooted, and

the water-oaks had ceased to moan as they bent their heads

Edna arose, cra and still in the ha feebly at the post before passing into

the house

"Are you co her face toward her

husband

"Yes, dear," he answered, with a glance following a ar"