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The Emancipated

CHAPTER IV
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One morning the heavens lowered, grey, rolling; it might have been England.
Vesuvius, heavily laden at first with a cloud like that on Olympus when the gods are wrathful, by degrees passed from vision, withdrew its form into recesses of dun mists.

The angry blue of Capri faded upon a troubled blending of sea and sky; everywhere the horizon contracted and grew mournful; rain began to fall.
Miriam sank as the heavens darkened.

The strength of which she had lately been conscious forsook her; all her body was oppressed with languor, her mind miserably void.

No book made appeal to her, and the sight of those which she had bought from home was intolerable.

She lay upon a couch, her limbs torpid, burdensome.


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