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GREAT HEART AND LITTLE HEART.
THERE was a pause.
The moments passed--and not one of the three moved.

The moments passed--and not one of the three spoke.

Insensibly the words of supplication died away on Julian's lips.

Even his energy failed to sustain him, tried as it now was by the crushing oppression of suspense.
The first trifling movement which suggested the idea of change, and which so brought with it the first vague sense of relief, came from Mercy.