She smiled when he ended,
but she did not answer, and there was a wild vacancy in the smile that
seemed to say she knew not what had been spoken, and that her thoughts
were far away. Without further regarding him or any present, she arose
and left the room. At this moment of fearful abstraction, her whole
soul was bent with an intensity that touched on madness, on the
execution of a project which had rushed into her mind in the moment she
heard of Wallace's deathful captivity and destination.
Helen gazed intently on him while he spoke. She smiled when he ended,
but she did not answer, and there was a wild vacancy in the smile that
seemed to say she knew not what had been spoken, and that her thoughts
were far away. Without further regarding him or any present, she arose
and left the room. At this moment of fearful abstraction, her whole
soul was bent with an intensity that touched on madness, on the
execution of a project which had rushed into her mind in the moment she
heard of Wallace's deathful captivity and destination.
The approach of night favored her design. Hurrying to her chamber, she
dismissed her maids with the prompt excuse that she was ill, and
desired not to be disturbed until morning, then bolting the door, she
quickly habited herself as the dear memorial of her happy days in
France, and dropping from her window into the pleasance beneath, ran
swiftly through its woody precincts toward Dundee.
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