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to the nervous, solitary one, in the middle of
the bright polished floor, and it sways under
him – the walls vanish from him.
Her fingers touch one of the hairs of our
head, and we feel as if the air had left us, and
we were in a vacuum.
We met with her at Danemora’s immense
gulf, whither we, came on broad, smooth,
excellent high-roads, through the fresh forest.
She sat on the extreme edge of the rocky wall,
above the abyss, and kicked at the tun with
her thin, awl-like legs, as it hung in iron chains
on large beams, from the tower-high corner of
the bridge by the precipice.
The traveller raised his foot over the abyss,
and set it on the tun, into which one of the
workmen received him, and held him; and the
chains rattled; the pulleys turned; the tun
sank slowly, hovering through the air. But he
felt the descent; he felt it through his bones
and marrow; through all the nerves. Her icy
breath blew in his neck, and down the spine,
and the air itself became colder and colder. It
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