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Ma'aie, when she saw that her sister slept, arose noiselessly

and stepped outside upon the low-roofed narrow gallery She did not

linger there, but with a step that was hurried and agitated, she crossed

the distance that divided her cabin froht was not a dark one, for the sky was clear and the ht or dark would have ie It was not the first tiht-time, when the whole plantation slept; but she never before had

been there with a heart so nearly broken She was going there for the

last time to dream her dreams; to see the visions that hitherto had

crowded her days and nights, and to bid the her upon the very portal; a robust

old white-haired uests to be entertained Does she not know it? Guests from the city

and from the near plantations Yes, she knows it is late She had been

abroad with Felix, and they did not notice how the ti

Felix is there; he will explain it all He is there beside her, but she

does not want to hear what he will tell her father

Ma'aie had sunk upon the bench where she and her sister so

often ca chasm of