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Lilith

CHAPTER X
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Up and down she walked, vainly endeavouring to lay hold of the mist and wrap it around her.

The eyes in the beautiful face were dead, and on her left side was a dark spot, against which she would now and then press her hand, as if to stifle pain or sickness.

Her hair hung nearly to her feet, and sometimes the wind would so mix it with the mist that I could not distinguish the one from the other; but when it fell gathering together again, it shone a pale gold in the moonlight.
Suddenly pressing both hands on her heart, she fell to the ground, and the mist rose from her and melted in the air.

I ran to her.

But she began to writhe in such torture that I stood aghast.


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