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Manybook21 sleepless nights did she pass amidst those horrors of fancy starting at every noise and sweating with dreary apprehensionbook51 yet ashamed to own her fears or solicit the comfort of a bedfellow lest she should incur the ridicule and censure of her fathers wife and what rendered this disposition the more irksome was the solitary situation of her chamber that stood at the end of a long gallery scarce within hearing of any other inhabited part of the house. In spite of her notions of decency she was glad of his intrusion and being in no condition to observe punctilios slipped on a wrapper opened the door and with a faltering voice owned herself frightened almost to distraction.... read all
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