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On I went (wearily enough, and with the faintness growing upon

about

the faintness increase with inaction, I started forward, groping

before one but a few paces, however, when I

tripped over some obstacle, and fell heavily It wanted but this

to complete my misery, and I lay where I was, overcome by a

deadly nausea

Now presently, as I lay thus, spent and sick, I becaly played all around ht that

pierced the gloo

raindrops, whose brilliance was blurred, now and then, by the

flitting shapes of wind-tossed branches At sight of this ered on towards this welcoht, and thus I saw that it streae Even then, it seemed, I journeyed ers, and fu, opened the door,

stumbled in, and closed it after ht, and then, little

by little, noticed that the table and chairs had been righted,

that the fire had been htly