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But, as she laid her hand on the skull, she gave a wild start of horror, not at the touch of the cold, smooth bone, nor at the blank, black stare of the eyeless sockets, but at finding beneath her hand a mass of soft, curling hair, damp, as with night-dew! at beholding eyes with "speculation" in them, ay, with human passions, luminous and full, eyes that now yearned with love, now burned with hate, ah, God! the eyes of Lawrence Bury!
Often remonstrated with for his imprudence in exposing himself to the heavy night-dew, he would listen to no advice.
All my firmness, all my coolness, disappeared like smoke; my soul grew powerless, my reason silent, and, if anyone had seen me at that moment, he would have turned aside with contempt. When the night-dew and the mountain breeze had cooled my burning brow, and my thoughts had resumed their usual course, I realized that to pursue my perished happiness would be unavailing and unreasonable.
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