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How long I stood staring at this, I cannot say, but, all at once,

the leaves of the tree were agitated as by a breath of wind, and

rustled with a sound indescribably desolate, and fro-drawn, ht bird

Heedless of my direction, I hurried away, yet, ever when I had

left it far behind, I glanced backbranches were lost to h the shadows, past trees that were not

trees, and hedges that were not hedges, but frightful phanto arers Tiain, ashainative fool, but kept well

in the rasped one, perhaps, so with myself, when I suddenly fancied I heard

a step behindround upon my heel, with ready stick;

but the road stretched away e

looked about ain, yet,

i tiain; but, whenever I

turned, the road behind was apparently as es ed by souess at, and that all our actions are watched by eyes which we