[Little Novels by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookLittle Novels CHAPTER XI 97/249
"Do _you_ see it, too ?" She was just able to say "Yes" before she fainted in my arms. He stooped over her, and touched her cold cheek with his lips.
"Goodby!" he said, in tones suddenly and strangely changed to the most exquisite tenderness.
"Good-by, forever!" He leaped the rivulet; he crossed the open ground; he was lost to sight in the valley beyond. As he disappeared, the visionary man among the fir-trees advanced; passed in silence; crossed the rivulet at a bound; and vanished as the figure of the Captain had vanished before him. I was left alone with the swooning woman.
Not a sound, far or near, broke the stillness of the coming night. No 5 .-- Mr.Frederic Darnel, Member of the College of Surgeons, testifies and says:-- IN the intervals of my professional duty I am accustomed to occupy myself in studying Botany, assisted by a friend and neighbor, whose tastes in this respect resemble my own.
When I can spare an hour or two from my patients, we go out together searching for specimens.
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