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 and this title soon became familiar to her own ears. Regularly at the eloseclose [sic] of the day she returned to her father's house; seldom shoshe [sic] notieednoticed [sic] any one in it, but retired to a small ehamberchamber [sic] that was entirely appropriated to her own use. Jane continued in this state above two years without any alteration in her mind, but a very alarming one in her person. She was now redueedreduced [sic] to a mere shadow of her former self; her eyes no longer sparkled with brilliancy; her lips were robbed of the eoralcoral [sic] hue, and her eheekscheeks [sic] assumed an ashy paleness.

One morning, instead of lying till a late hour, whiehwhich [sic] for some months back had been her eustomcustom [sic], and then repairing with her solitary meal to the grove, she joined the family at their breakfast table, and eonversedconversed [sic] on several subjeetssubjects [sic] moromore [sic] rationally than she had done sineosince [sic] the first day of her derangement. As soon as their repast was ended, Jane arose, and affeetionatelyaffectionately [sic] embraeedembraced [sic] every individual of the family, particularly her mother and Rosetta. They were extremely affeetedaffected [sic], and prayed with fervour that heaven would be pleased to restororestore [sic] the sense of the fair maniaemaniac [sic]. They then separated to perform their several domestiedomestic [sic] duties, and Jane hastened to her usual haunts, taking with her a little basket of provisions, whiehwhich [sic] her tender mother always prepared ready to put in her hand; or poor Jane would never have thought of food till assailed by the calls of hunger. When evening arrived, and above an hour was spent in momentary expectation of her return, the family became greatly alarmed, and Lubin and his mother went forth to seek her. They were not many paeespaces [sic] from the house, when they pereeivedperceived [sic] a group of villagers approaehingapproaching [sic] towards them bearing a corpse. Alas! it was