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Out of her sphere - University Library

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IN THE FORT.<br />

terribly dull place to sit in ; I wonder if<br />

people ever did live <strong>her</strong>e, and if so, how<br />

they bore their lives. Good gracious ! I<br />

should think t<strong>her</strong>e must have been times<br />

when they envied the very limpets on the<br />

rocks !"<br />

From the window w<strong>her</strong>e she sat she could<br />

see the Denes stretching along in their<br />

monotony, and the low, poor land beyond,<br />

w<strong>her</strong>e nothing but the poorest, coarsest<br />

grass grew for miles. It was not easy to<br />

see persons approaching from the town,<br />

until they were quite near the Fort, but she<br />

had expected that the sound <strong>of</strong> Audley<br />

Dale's horse's ho<strong>of</strong>s would reach <strong>her</strong> as she<br />

sat, and was surprised to hear a step below,<br />

and yet, looking down, see nothing <strong>of</strong> the<br />

horse.<br />

'' I wonder w<strong>her</strong>e he has tet<strong>her</strong>ed him ; or<br />

he may have walked ;<br />

he surely never can<br />

have been so imprudent as to have brought

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