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IN an upper room, whose window looked into a mass of bare branches, / Lady Eliza lay dying. This last act she was accomplishing with a / deliberation which she had given to nothing else in her life; for it / was two days since the little knot of horrified sportsmen had lifted / her on to the hurdle which someone had run to fetch from a neighbouring / farm. Rocket, unhurt, but for a scratch or two, had rolled over her / twice and she had not fallen clear.
The hounds had just killed when Cecilia, summoned by a stranger who had / pursued her for nearly half a mile, came galloping back to find her / unconscious figure laid upon the grass. The men who stood round made / way for her as she sprang from her horse. She went down on her knees / beside her aunt and took one of her helpless hands.