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his arhtened and upset No need, no need!

What's a broken arhtened, and I'nantly, but with

a s"

"And out of color, too, Nell No need to run back, "

He spoke to the cob, who understood every word and touch of his master,

and jolted down the steep road, and Nell followed slowly She was rather

pale, as he had noticed, but she was not frightened In all her

uneventful life nothing so exciting, so disturbing had happened as this

accident It was difficult to realize it, to realize that a great strong

man had been cast helpless at her feet, that she had had his head on her

lap; she looked down at the patch on her dress and shuddered Was she

glad or sorry that she had chanced to be near when he fell? As she asked

herself the question her conscience smote her What a question to arise

in her lad, to have been able

to help him Then the man's face rose before her, and appealed to her by

its whiteness, by the weary, wistful lines about the lips and eyes