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(i)<br >Total blackness. A tomb within a tomb. She tried<br >desperately to call out, but no sound came. A suffocat-<br >ing weight bore down on her, stifling her voice. She<br >could not see what it was that bestrode her, aware only<br >that it was evil and terrifying, hanging over her like a<br >dark pall. She struggled to escape its embrace but her<br >arms were pinioned and her legs felt leaden and would<br >not move.<br > The blackness slid away, like a curtain being drawn<br >to one side, and a white mistiness filled her vision and<br >instead of darkness there was light: a clammy lumi-<br >nosity, claustrophobic gs a winding sheet.<br > And all the while a~ slow, rhythmic crunching of<br >gravel, like ponderous fbotsteps closing in on her, in-<br >spired a fearful urgency to her petrified struggles and<br >her soundless cries.<br > With a final, frenzied effort she burst through the<br >nightmare shroud of sleep and sat up, her heart<br >pounding. A trickle of sweat ran from her neck and<br >across her breast and she felt the clinging wetness of<br >her nightdress against her back. She pushed away the<br >heavy eiderdown and swung her legs over the side of<br >the bed and sat for a time with her hands resting<br >against her legs until her breathing became more con-<br >trolled. The house was silent, the night air completely<br >still, only the pounding pulse of blood beating in her<br >ear drums. She stood up, and to dispel the oppressive<br >stillness with the commotion of her own movement,<br >walked quickly across to the open window.<br > A nearly full moon, newly escaped from a billowing<br >bank of cloud, rode high above a big oak tree, filling<br >the room with its dead, white glow. From beyond the<br >cliff she heard the rasping noise of a gentle sea swell<br >7<br >l,t~plno:~<br >l~.dsoq tq.<br > ~..~<br > lu~p~.s~d<br >j.o~Otl.19 U~<br ><br >
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