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It was about the same hour, nearly a week after, that Clemence was walking alone, musing upon her own unhappy fate, when, startled by a rustling of the branches near her, she turned, to behold little Johnny Brier rushing hastily past, without looking to one side or the other, and following the path that opened upon the margin of the lake. A strange fear took possession of Clemence.

Hester turned cold; she opened her lips, but the words refused to come. The mother lay languidly looking, musing, waiting; suddenly she turned white and gasped out: "Oh, my God! what is it? is she sick?" Then the poor aunt's tortured heart rose in rebellion, and words came: "No be comforted; she is well." The sick woman put all her happy heart in her gratitude: "Thank God for those dear words!

"And are you too awake?" he said, with something resembling a sigh. "I thought the innocent could ever sleep!" "Not when the guilty are abroad, with deeds of death, and friends exposed," returned Ella, bitterly. "Ah! true true!" rejoined Girty, again looking toward the fire, in a musing mood.

That coming-along-with-him deportment was now lost in long musing looks at John and at herself and sometimes in slow heavy rubs of his hand across his forehead, as if he were ironing cut the creases which his deep pondering made there.

After this conversation, Lady Glenalvon sought Kenelm, found him gloomily musing on the banks of the trout-stream, took his arm, led him into the sombre glades of the fir-grove, and listened patiently to all he had to say.

To-morrow I shall bathe my face in the coils of your silken hair." And he was away. When Jean rode away from his master he fell into a train of musing. "Methinks," he said aloud after a long pause, "that we had better kill two birds with one stone to-morrow. If the master take the mistress, I do not see why the man should not have the maid."

"A saucepan I know, and a frying-pan I know, but what you're to put in those things with holes in them fairly licks me." "Perhaps we might grow geraniums in them," said Septimus brightly, alter a fit of musing. "If you do," said Zora, "I'll put a female cook in charge of you both, and wash my hands of you."

No;" he continued musing, "trouble does not spring from out of the ground. Then whence comes this? Who hates me?" he continued sharply; "Covets her?

He rested his lean jaw in one huge hand, musing, dim-eyed, silent. Far away a cow bell tinkled, and he turned his head, peering out across the tangled pasture lot. "We called our caow Jinny," he said. "She's saucy and likes to plague folks. But I don't never chase her; no, ma'am.

"I remember," he said, musing, "at Oxford, one night, walking back to college with your brother John. We had been visiting the prisoners in Bocardo. As we turned into the Turl between Exeter and Jesus colleges there, at the end of the street it is little more than a lane beyond the spire of All Saints' this planet was shining.