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On the comb of the hill where his adventure had begun and / culminated -- it seemed to him now like historic ground -- Edward Lynde / reined in Mary, to take a parting look at the village nestled in the / plain below. Already the afternoon light was withdrawing from the / glossy chestnuts and drooping elms, and the twilight -- it crept into the / valley earlier than elsewhere -- was weaving its half invisible webs / under the eaves and about the gables of the houses. But the two red / towers of the asylum reached up into the mellow radiance of the waning / sun, and stood forth boldly. They were the last objects his gaze rested / upon, and to them alone his eyes sent a farewell.
"Poor little thing! poor little Queen of Sheba! " he said softly. Then / the ridge rose between him and the village, and shut him out forever.