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A Dark Night’s Work

CHAPTER VII
11/28

Three days of this moist, warm, growing weather, and the green grass would spring, just as if life--was what it had been twenty-four hours before.
When all this was done and said, it seemed as if Ellinor's strength and spirit sank down at once.

Her voice became feeble, her aspect wan; and although she told Miss Monro that nothing was the matter, yet it was impossible for any one who loved her not to perceive that she was far from well.

The kind governess placed her pupil on the sofa, covered her feet up warmly, darkened the room, and then stole out on tiptoe, fancying that Ellinor would sleep.

Her eyes were, indeed, shut; but try as much as she would to be quiet, she was up in less than five minutes after Miss Monro had left the room, and walking up and down in all the restless agony of body that arises from an overstrained mind.

But soon Miss Monro reappeared, bringing with her a dose of soothing medicine of her own concocting, for she was great in domestic quackery.


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