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I reached it; I drew it open I did not turn ain, lest I should beco

with her for the impossible I passed into the hallway and pulled the

door shut behind ot as far as the balustrade,

which, by following it, would lead me to the bottom of the stairs at

the house entrance

My foot was upon the first step of the stairs when I heard rushing

footsteps behindarms around

my neck, and I felt her hot and quick breath uponto th, and with ainsther as if she had been a child, and then, bearing her

with h the doorway, and into the room I had

just left I carried her to the divan, and I seated her upon the edge

of it, still retainingshort of death shall take you from me In

the last few moments I have experienced all the horrors of a separation