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Suffering more anguish from a sunbeam or a song than others from the knout or the rack, I had yet run the gauntlet of the intensest horrors, cheered by the certainty of her regard. She would confess her error. We should shut out the world again from our shadowy home at Glengoyle, and go down together, hand in hand, to a deeper stillness.
My hair was shaven close to my skull; my head ached dismally; I moved my hand with an effort, and my eyelids were so weak that I could not unseal them for a time. "I was lying in my old chamber at Glengoyle, and Heraine was sitting at my bedside.
"She did not wait for me to speak, though I thrilled and turned deadly white. "'And because so pleasantly, I contemplate my farewell with regret. "'Your farewell, Heraine? "'Yes, she said firmly; 'to-day this afternoon this hour I bid adieu to Glengoyle! "I fell forward in my seat, forcing down my heart, which sobbed and swelled, and the whole world rang, flared, and burst into violence.
You will know him to-day, and I am sure you will love him. "Still surging upon mist and spray and bough, with the halo of the rainbow shimmering above it, the noble face turned upward forgivingly. "'We have planned for your happiness, dear friend. Compared to the retreat we have fashioned for you, Glengoyle is a Babel. But you are ill, Luke; What terrible allurement lies in the waterfall?
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