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of the apparent cheerfulness which subsequentlyelevated you, that the recollection of the tempesthas been engendering these hideous phantasms.You shall not again trust yourself in that vehicle."

" And yet," she replied, " my spirits were re-lieved by the former excursion, notwithstandingmy reluctance to engage in it; and, it may be,that the storm which seemed so full of danger,but, in the event, was so harmless, served to con-vince me of the vanity of my alarms. I shall al-ways be under the dominion of this dream, if I donot prove its fallacy. For this purpose, I willmake a strong effort, and beg you to take meagain with you in that very carriage and alongthat very road, and I shall doubtless return homeliberated from the haunting terror."

" I congratulate you, from my heart, on yourresolution," said Sir Henry, embracing his wife." We will go, and, as you say, you shall haveabundant demonstration of the groundlessness ofyour dread."

To put her determination in practice was, how-