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 rations for removal, when a tap at her chamber-door, to which, imagining it given by the maid, she answered, "Come in," presented Harleigh to her affrighted view.

"Ah heaven!" she cried, turning pale with dismay, "are you then fixed, Mr. Harleigh, to rob me of peace for life?"

"Be not," cried he, rapidly, "alarmed! I will not cost you a moment's danger, and hardly a moment"s uneasiness. A few words will remove every fear; but I must speak them myself. Elinor is at this instant out of all but wilful danger; wilful danger, however, being all that she had had to encounter, it must be guarded against as sedulously as if it were inevitable. To this end, I must leave Brighthelmstone immediately—"

"No, Sir," interrupted Ellis; "it is I who must leave Brighthelmstone; your going would be the height of inhumanity."