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fatigued with unusual exertion, chilled by the hostile elements, which every moment grew more tempestuous, agitated by terrible and nameless emotions, exhausted by the struggle of warring passions, my strength and my spirits utterly failed, and I sunk without motion on the turf.

Returning, in a few moments, to life and recollection, I found myself in the arms of my lover, accompanied by Mr. Neville, and a servant carrying a light, to assist them in their search through the dark and the pathless wilderness, where, alarmed by my unusual absence, and the inclemency of the weather, they had, for some time, sought me in vain.