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them ashore! Then kind Heaveninspired me with the thought of setting fire to my bed, and rather tolet the house burn down, than that all those people should perish somiserably. I succeeded in lighting up a beacon for them. The redflame blazed up on high, aud I escaped out of the door, but fell… … DAME MARGERY FIRES HER BED FOR A BEACON. fast as they could, to give aid to a poor old woman who, they thought,was being burned to death. Not one remained behind. I heard themcoming; but I also became aware of a rushing sound in the air; I hearda rumbling like the sound of heavy artillery ; the…
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