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It had been a leaden dawn, and the rain now steadily renewed its fall

As she heard no one

away to his daily work, and forgotten that he had promised to accompany

her to Sherton; an erroneous conclusion, for he remained all day, by

force of his condition, within fifty yards of where she was The

wore on; and in her doubt when to start, and how to travel, she

lingered yet, keeping the door carefully bolted, lest an intruder

should discover her Locked in this place, she was comparatively safe,

at any rate, and doubted if she would be safe elsewhere

The huloom of an ordinary wet day was doubled by the shade and

drip of the leafage Autu, in her enforced idleness, fro-room, she could see various small members of the animal

community that lived unmolested there--creatures of hair, fluff, and

scale, the toothed kind and the billed kind; underground creatures,

jointed and ringed--circu gone away, nobody was there; and eying it

inquisitively with a vieinter-quarters Watching these

neighbors, who knew neither law nor sin, distracted her a little froed to while away so Giles's ho little