"
"May I not be permitted to call to-morrow to inquire after Miss
Goodwin's health?"
"Assuredly not."
"Nor to send a messenger?"
"By no means; and now, sir, withdraw; I must go in to my daughter, till
I see what can be done for her, or whether anything can or not."
Harry Woodward looked upon him steadily for a time, and the old man felt
as if his very strength was becoming relaxed; a sense of faintness and
terror came over him, and, as Woodward took his departure in silence,
the father of Alice began to abandon all hopes of her recovery. He
himself felt the effects of the mysterious gaze which Woodward had
fastened on him, and entered the room, conscious of the fatal power of
the Evil Eye.
Fit after fit succeeded each other for the space of, at least, an hour
and a half, after which they ceased, but left her in such a state of
weakness and terror that she might be said, at that moment, to hover
between life and death. She was carried in her distracted father's
arms to bed, and after they had composed her as well as they could, her
father said,--
"My darling child, you may now summon strength and courage; that man,
that bad man, will never come under this roof again.
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