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"So it is Coht there"

"Have you another cave, then?"

"Come and see"

But she did not move until I rose first, and then she was on her feet

before I could offer my hand to help her She cah the wood But once or twice, when, involuntarily

almost, I was about to put loo her face full

towards , in the

attitude of one who fears some half-seen enemy It was too dark to

discern the expression of her face Then she would return and walk close

beside e;

but, besides that I had aliven up the atteed that it would be very

unfair to expect fro and had been so suddenly

awakened, a behaviour correspondent to what I ht have been drea about Besides, it was

possible that, while her words were free, her sense of toucha long way in the woods, we arrived at another

thicket, through the intertexture of which was gliht

"Push aside the branches," she said, "and make room for us to

enter"