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At the Back of the North Wind

CHAPTER XXX
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But I don't quite know: they are so very bright--like buttons of lightning.

Now I've showed you all I can to-night, and we'll go back to the room.' I followed him, and he made me sit down under a lamp that hung from the roof, and gave me some bread and honey.
"The lady had never moved.

She sat with her forehead leaning on her hand, gazing out of the little window, hung like the rest with white cloudy curtains.

From where I was sitting I looked out of it too, but I could see nothing.

Her face was very beautiful, and very white, and very still, and her hand was as white as the forehead that leaned on it.


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