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When he recovered his reason, he began to think what could have become

of the mirror For the lady, he hoped she had found her way back as

she came; but as the mirror involved her fate with its own, he was more

immediately anxious about that He could not think she had carried it

away It was much too heavy, even if it had not been too firain, he remembered the thunder;

which , but some other

blow that had struck him down He concluded that, either by supernatural

agency, he having exposed hi the circle of safety, or in some other mode, the mirror had

probably found its way back to its forht have been by this ti up

the lady into the power of another man; who, if he used his power no

worse than he hiive Cosmo abundant cause to

curse the selfish indecision which prevented hi the

mirror at once Indeed, to think that she whom he loved, and who had

prayed to hiree,

of the possessor of the mirror, and was at least exposed to his constant

observation, was in itself enough to madden a chary lover