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To whom would its repose and peace have not appealed against disturbance, like the innocent slumber of a child! "Punctual, of course, Milly," said her husband, relieving her of the tray, "or it wouldn't be you. Here's Mrs. William, sir! He looks lonelier than ever to-night," whispering to his wife, as he was taking the tray, "and ghostlier altogether."
It was that hour when, with clear skies, the gray northern dawn would have been breaking faintly over the eastern forests. Kent found the darkness more fog-like; about him was a grayer, ghostlier sort of gloom. But he could not see the water under his feet. Nor could he see the rail of the scow, or the river.
On the other side of the table was a ghostlier form, the faint figure of an antagonist good-humouredly but a little wearily secure an antagonist who leaned back in his chair with his hands in his pockets and a smile on his fine clear face.
He passed into the closet; he lifted the arras; he stood in that chamber, which gratitude and chivalry and hospitable faith should have made sacred as a shrine. And suddenly, as he entered, the moon, before hid beneath a melancholy cloud, broke forth in awful splendour, and her light rushed through the casement opposite his eye, and bathed the room with the beams of a ghostlier day.
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