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I am sworn brother now / / To grim Necessity; and he and I / / Will keep a league till death. / / SHAKSPEARE.
"My blood seems to curdle in my veins," murmured Constance, as she / rubbed the palm of one hand against the back of the other; "my very / blood seems to curdle in my veins, and a shadow, as of the vampire's / wing, is over me. But why is this? Is God less present with me here than / beneath the heavenly atmosphere I have just now breathed?" And then she / uttered a few words of prayer, so earnestly, that Burrell had entered / the room before she was aware of his presence.