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She reached the wicket at Mistover Knap, but before opening it she turned and faced the heath once more The form of Rainbarrow stood above the hills, and the ed with silence and frost The scene reminded Eustacia of a circuotten She had proht, to give a final answer to his pleading for an elope and the hour He had probably coreatly disappointed

"Well, so much the better--it did not hurt him," she said serenely Wildeve had at present the rayless outline of the sun through sreatest facility

She re ain upon Eustacia's mind

"O that she had been married to Damon before this!" she said "And she would if it hadn't been for me! If I had only known--if I had only known!"

Eustacia once hing that tragic sigh of hers which was so much like a shudder, entered the shadow of the roof She threw off her trappings in the outhouse, rolled them up, and went indoors to her chamber