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been no new discovery, of money, or of any other property; but”

He felt his wrist held closer, and he stopped. The expression in the

forehead, which had so particularly attracted his notice, and which

was now immovable, had deepened into one of pain and horror.

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“But he has beenbeen found. He is alive. Greatly changed, it

is too probable; almost a wreck, it is possible; though we will hope

for the best. Still, alive. Your father has been taken to the house of

an old servant in Paris, and we are going there: I, to identify him if

I can: you, to restore him to life, love, duty, rest, comfort.”

A shiver ran through her frame, and from it through his. She

said, in a low, distinct, awe-stricken voice, as if she were saying it

in a dream, “I am going to see his Ghost! It will be his Ghostnot

him!”

Mr. Lorry quietly chafed the hands that held his arm. “There,

there, there! See now, see now! The best and the worst are known

to you, now. You are well on your way to the poor wronged

gentleman, and, with a fair sea voyage, and a fair land journey, you

will be soon at his dear side.”

She repeated in the same tone, sunk to a whisper, “I have been

free, I have been happy, yet his Ghost has never haunted me!”

“Only one thing more,” said Mr. Lorry, laying stress upon it as a

wholesome means of enforcing