Her face became red and pale--violently red and ghastly pale--by rapid turns.

Her strength seemed gone.

Her knees collapsed, and she was actually sinking on the floor, when to her surprise and joy Mimi came into the room, running hurriedly and breathing heavily.
Lilla rushed to her, and the two clasped hands.

With that, a new sense of power, greater than Lilla had ever seen in her, seemed to quicken her cousin.

Her hand swept the air in front of Edgar Caswall, seeming to drive him backward more and more by each movement, till at last he seemed to be actually hurled through the door which Mimi's entrance had left open, and fell at full length on the gravel path without.
Then came the final and complete collapse of Lilla, who, without a sound, sank down on the floor..