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What then has brought you hither?"
"I must see the inmate of that tent."
"You know what it contains?"
"I am taught to believe I do; and I bear a letter, which I must
deliver with my own hands. If the animal prove a quadruped, Ishmael is
a true man--if a biped, fledged or unfledged, I care not, he is false,
and our compactum at an end!"
Ellen made a sign for the Doctor to remain where he was, and to be
silent. She then glided into the tent, where she continued many
minutes, that proved exceedingly weary and anxious to the expectant
without, but the instant she returned, she took him by the arm, and
together they entered beneath the folds of the mysterious cloth.

CHAPTER XII
Pray God the Duke of York excuse himself!
--King Henry VI.
The mustering of the borderers on the following morning was silent,
sullen, and gloomy. The repast of that hour was wanting in the
inharmonious accompaniment with which Esther ordinarily enlivened
their meals; for the effects of the powerful opiate the Doctor had
administered still muddled her intellects.


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