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Chapter the Twelfth
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There’s something in that ancient superstition1,
Which, erring2 as it is, our fancy loves.
The spring that, with its thousand crystal bubbles,
Bursts from the bosom3 of some desert rock
In secret solitude4, may well be deem’d
The haunt of something purer, more refined,
And mightier5 than ourselves.
Old play.
Young Halbert Glendinning had scarcely pronounced the mystical rhymes, than, as we have mentioned in the conclusion of the last chapter, an appearance, as of a beautiful female, dressed in white, stood within two yards of him. His terror for the moment overcame his natural courage, as well as the strong resolution which he had formed, that the figure which he had now twice seen should not a third time daunt6 him. But it would seem there is something thrilling and abhorrent7 to flesh and blood, in the consciousness that we stand in presence of a being in form like to ourselves, but so different in faculties8 and nature, that we can neither understand its purposes, nor calculate its means of pursuing them.
Halbert stood silent and gasped9 for breath, his hairs erecting10 themselves on his head —— his mouth open — his eyes fixed11, and, as the sole remaining sign of his late determined
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superstition
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appal
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astonishment
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incorporeal
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corporeal
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disappearance
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hawk
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ranger
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consistency
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hue
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velocity
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cavern
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dome
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ascending
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rosy
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exertion
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plunge
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v.跳入,(使)投入,(使)陷入;猛冲 | |
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hesitation
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scorched
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contortion
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scorching
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immortal
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