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Edmond had again returned to consciousness, and on opening his eyes, he saw Mazel, by his couch and the swarthy Eustace, who although wounded himself, had stayed to serve him, and was kneeling by his bed; He could not for a long time recall to his recollection how he had come there, and the fierce looking men, with the view from the hut over the mountains and woods, threw him into a strange reverie; However, he was soon enabled to connect one idea with another, and to reassemble all his faculties. His imagination was still busied with Cavalier, he fancied he could follow and see him, now, as a shadow, then, brighter again, yet it seemed as if his feverish state presented him figuring to himself, in real
