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What people, therefore, saw of her in a cursory vieas very little;

in truth,that was not she The woman herself was a

shadowy, conjectural creature who had little to do with the outlines

presented to Sherton eyes; a shape in the gloom, whose true description

could only be approxilance then, in that patient and long-continued attentiveness which

nothing but watchful loving-kindness ever troubles to give

There was a little delay in their setting out from the town, and Marty

South took advantage of it to hasten forward, with the view of escaping

them on the way, lest they should feel co her to ride She walked fast, and one-third of

the journey was done, and the evening rapidly darkening, before she

perceived any sign of the a hill,

she di near the lowest part of the

incline, their heads slightly bent towards each other; drawn together,

no doubt, by their souls, as the heads of a pair of horses well in hand

are drawn in by the rein She walked still faster

But between these and herself there was a carriage, apparently a