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Her mind, on the contrary,
seemed to take something of its hue from the cold sad tones of the
forest. The serious depth of expression in her dark eyes seemed
to deepen yet more, and become yet more concentrated--their glance
acquired a yet keener intentness--an inflexibility of direction--which
suffered them seldom to turn aside from those moody contemplations,
which had made her, for a long time, infinitely prefer to gaze upon
the rocks, and woods, and waters, than upon the warm and wooing
features of humanity.
At distance the youth watched and sometimes followed her, and
when, with occasional boldness, he would draw nigh to her secret
wanderings, a cold fear filled his heart, and he shrunk back with
all the doubt and dread of some guilty trespasser. But his doubt,
and we may add, his dread also, was soon to cease entirely, in the
complete conviction of his hopelessness. The day and the fate were
approaching, in the person of one, to whom a natural instinct had
already taught him to look with apprehension, and whose very first
appearance had inspired him with antipathy.


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