With a curiosity so justly awakened, and feelings in every way so agitated, repose must be absolutely impossible.

The storm too abroad so dreadful! She had not been used to feel alarm from wind, but now every blast seemed fraught with awful intelligence.

The manuscript so wonderfully found, so wonderfully accomplishing the morning's prediction, how was it to be accounted for?
What could it contain?
To whom could it relate?
By what means could it have been so long concealed?
And how singularly strange that it should fall to her lot to discover it! Till she had made herself mistress of its contents, however, she could have neither repose nor comfort; and with the sun's first rays she was determined to peruse it.

But many were the tedious hours which must yet intervene.

She shuddered, tossed about in her bed, and envied every quiet sleeper.