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"What aht into her

eyes "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said;

"I can't help it"

At thatall obstacles,

sent the snow flying froe roofs, and clanked some

sheet of iron it had torn off, while the hoarse whistle of the

engine roared in front, plaintively and gloomily All the

awfulness of the storm seemed to her ed to hear, though she feared it with her

reason She ive me, if you dislike what I said," he said humbly

He had spoken courteously, deferentially, yet so fir while she couldyou, if you're a good et it," she said at last

"Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever

forget"

"Enough, enough!" she cried trying assiduously to give a stern

expression to her face, into which he was gazing greedily And

clutching at the cold door post, she claot rapidly into the corridor of the carriage But in the little

corridor she paused, going over in her ih she could not recall her oords or his, she

realized instinctively that the ht them fearfully closer; and she was panic-stricken and

blissful at it After standing still a few seconds, she went

into the carriage and sat down in her place The overstrained