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Oh, what hadst thou to do with cruel Death, Who wast so full of life, or Death with thee? LONGFELLOW.
Sir Adrian Landale, in his sea-girt fastness, still absorbed in dreams of bygone days, loosed his grasp of faithful Rene's shoulder and fell to pacing the chamber with sombre mien; while Rene, to whom these fits of abstraction in his master were not unfamiliar, but yet to his superstitious peasant soul, eerie and awe-inspiring visitations, slipped unnoticed from his presence.