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All this is to be sanctified , This rupture with the past ; For thus we die before our deaths , And so die well at last . _ Faber _ . Dinner-time came , and passed , and still Richard did not come . At eight o'clock Ann brought the tea , as usual , and it stood nearly an hour upon the table ; and then I told her to take it away . By this time I had begun to feel uneasy . Something must have happened . It would necessarily be something uncomfortable , perhaps something that would frighten me , and give me another shock .