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And now to relate what more came to pass at Chilcote, and where Alison had vanished to.
The morning came to her after a sleepless night, and she was incapable of giving the answer to which Sir Ranald had hopefully looked forward. She was in a species of mental fever. So passed the day -- the day she knew that she could not meet Bevil -- and the short winter evening was passing into another night, when the ringing of the door bell gave her a kind of electric shock, so thoroughly was her whole nervous system shaken.