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I shall not only act,--I shall _speak_!" And emphasizing the last word as a sort of threat, she turned and strode out of the hut.
Ulrika followed more slowly, taking a different direction to that in which her late companion was seen rapidly disappearing.

On returning to the minister's dwelling, she found that Mr.Dyceworthy had not yet come back from his boating excursion.

She gave no explanation of her absence to her two fellow-servants, but went straight up to her own room--a bare attic in the roof--where she deliberately took off her dress and bared her shoulders and breast.

Then she knelt down on the rough boards, and clasping her hands, began to writhe and wrestle as though she were seized with a sudden convulsion.