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Ng and yet cautious tread, through the shrubbery; she had no fear,
although it might be the tread of robbers and murderers. The awfulness
of the hour raised her above common fears; though she did not go through
the usual process of reasoning, and by it feel assured that the feet
which were coming so softly and swiftly along were the same which she
had heard leaving the room in like manner only a quarter of an hour
before. Her father entered, and started back, almost upsetting some one
behind him by his recoil, on seeing his daughter in her motionless
attitude by the dead man. "My God, Ellinor! what has brought you here?"
he said, almost fiercely. But she answered as one stupefied, "I don't
know. Is he dead?" "Hush, hush, child; it cannot be helped." She rais