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Caleb Williams

CHAPTER VIII
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Emily was left alone with her deliverer.

He found her much more collected and calm, than could reasonably have been expected from a person who had been, a moment before, in the most alarming situation.
She told him of the place to which she desired to be conveyed, and he immediately undertook to escort her.

As they went along, she recovered that state of mind which inclined her to make a person to whom she had such repeated obligations, and who was so eminently the object of her admiration, acquainted with the events that had recently befallen her.
Mr.Falkland listened with eagerness and surprise.

Though he had already known various instances of Mr.Tyrrel's mean jealousy and unfeeling tyranny, this surpassed them all; and he could scarcely credit his ears while he heard the tale.

His brutal neighbour seemed to realise all that has been told of the passions of fiends.


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