Chapter 27 No.27

"Her pallid face displayed

Something, methought, surpassing mortal beauty.

She presently turn'd round, and fixed her large, wild eyes.

Brimming with tears, upon me, fetch'd a sigh,

As from a riven heart, and cried: He's dead!"

Hillhouse.

Maud had been so earnest, and so much excited, that the scarcely reflected on the singularity