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Deaths and have glutted myself with their shrieks and misery.
"When night.html">night came I quitted my retreat.html">retreat and wandered in the wood.html">wood;
my anguish in fearful howlings. I was like a wild beast that had
ranging through the wood with a staglike swiftness. Oh! What a
bare trees waved their branches above me; now and then the sweet
All, save I, were at rest.html">rest or in enjoyment; I, like the arch-fiend,
tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then
fatigued with excess of bodily exertion and sank on the damp grass
of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel
everlasting war against the species, and more than all, against him
impossible to return to my retreat during that day. Accordingly I
ensuing hours to reflection on my situation.
"The pleasant sunshine and the pure air of day restored me to some degree
I could not help believing that I had been too hasty in my conclusions.
had interested the father in my behalf, and I was a fool in having exposed
old De Lacey to me, and by degrees to have discovered myself to the rest
But I did not believe my errors to be irretrievable, and after much
and by my representations win him to my party.
"These thoughts calmed me, and in the afternoon I sank into a profound sleep;
The horrible scene of the preceding day was forever acting before my eyes; the
I awoke exhausted, and finding that it was already night, I crept forth
known path that conducted to the cottage. All there was at peace.
accustomed hour.html">hour when the family arose. That hour passed, the sun
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