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They drove all the seven miles to Chilford without twenty words passing between them; and when there, she sat in the road, and watched one constellation after another fill up its complement of stars as well as the moon permitted, wondering whether Tom's near-sighted driving would be safe in the dark; but her heart was so light, so glad, that she could not be afraid, she did not care how long she waited, it was only sitting still to recollect that deliverance had come to the captive Leonard was free 'free as heart can think or eye can see, as would keep ringing in her ears like a joy-bell; and some better things, too.
'Oh, I say, Ethel, he said, drawing up, 'do you like a drive out to Chilford? Here's a note come to ask my father to see the old lady there, and I want some one to give me courage to be looked at, like the curate in the pulpit instead of the crack preacher. It was an offer not to be despised, though Ethel knew what a waiting there would be, and what a dark drive home.
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