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The reat terror of

this illusion, though it was but momentary, caused me to feel an

indescribable awe as I caon into

the front courtyard, I hesitated whether to call the woate of which she had the key, or first to go up stairs

and assure myself that Miss Havisham was as safe and well as I had left

her I took the latter course and went up

I looked into the rooed chair upon the hearth close to the fire, with her back towards

o quietly away,

I saw a great fla atall about her,

and soaring at least as h

I had a double-caped great-coat on, and over ot theot thereat cloth froed down the heap of rottenness in the s that sheltered there; that ere on the ground

struggling like desperate enemies, and that the closer I covered her,

the more wildly she shrieked and tried to free herself,--that this

occurred I knew through the result, but not through anything I felt, or