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But you have seen how troubled my life was with fear and anxiety during the residence of Madame de la Rougierre, and now there rested upon my mind a vague and awful anticipation of the trial which my father had announced, without defining it. An 'ordeal' he called it, requiring not only zeal but nerve, which might possibly, were my courage to fail, become frightful, and even intolerable.
And then that night I had the key to some of the mysterious doings at Bartram-Haugh the comings and goings in the darkness which had so often startled me the face of Madame de la Rougierre peeped into the room. III. A Night of Terror Shortly afterwards I lost Milly, who was sent to a French school, where I was to follow her in three months.
'So that's Madame de la Rougierre? at length exclaimed Lady Knollys, with a very stately disdain. I think I never saw anyone look more shocked. Madame sat up, very flushed. No wonder, for she had been wrapped so close in the coverlet. She did not look quite at Lady Knollys, but straight before her, rather downward, and very luridly.
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