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Chapter 38
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The Catastrophe1.
What sheeted ghost is wandering through the storm?
For never did a maid of middle earth
Choose such a time or spot to vent2 her sorrows.
Old Play.
Grief, shame, confusion, and terror, had contributed to overwhelm the unfortunate Clara Mowbray at the moment when she parted with her brother, after the stormy and dangerous interview which it was our task to record in a former chapter. For years, her life, her whole tenor3 of thought, had been haunted by the terrible apprehension4 of a discovery, and now the thing which she feared had come upon her. The extreme violence of her brother, which went so far as to menace her personal safety, had united with the previous conflict of passions, to produce a rapture5 of fear, which probably left her no other free agency, than that which she derived6 from the blind instinct which urges flight, as the readiest resource in danger.
We have no means of exactly tracing the course of this unhappy young woman. It is probable she fled from Shaws-Castle, on hearing the arrival of Mr. Touchwood’s carriage, which she might mistake for that of Lord Etherington; and thus, while Mowbray was looking forward to the happier prospects7 which the traveller’s narrative9 seemed to open, his sister was contending with rain and darkness, amidst the difficulties and dangers of the mountain path which we have described. These were so great, that a young woman more delicately brought up, must either have lain down exhausted10, or have been compelled to turn her steps back to the residence she had abandoned. But the
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invalid
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confession
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wretch
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