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Rh wait, and wish and tremble, I became so greatly agitated, that I knew not what to do. I went down to dinner, but I could not force myself to eat. Mr. Huntingdon remarked the circumstance.

"What's to do with you now?" said he, when the removal of the second course gave him time to look about him.

"I am not well," I replied: "I think I must lie down a little—you won't miss me much?"

"Not the least; if you leave your chair, it'll do just as well—better a trifle," he muttered as I left the room, "for I can fancy somebody else fills it."

"Somebody else may fill it to-morrow," I thought—but did not say. "There! I've seen the last of you, I hope," I muttered as I closed the door upon him.

Rachel urged me to seek repose, at once, to recruit my strength for to-morrow's journey, as we must be gone before the dawn, but in my present state of nervous excitement, that was