[S]he accordingly proceeded with unrelaxed rapidity, startling the deer who came out into the open plots to browze, or scaring their lurking enemy the night-stalker, who, with his toils and engines, concealed himself in the adjoining bushes, that he might ensnare and carry off the fattest of the herd.
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“You can't conceive what he fancies. It seems, according to his account, that you are a night-stalker.”
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“Thou wilt have no need to bury me, for if I get my death he will have eaten me all dashed with blood, he will bear away my gory corpse, he will taste me; the night-stalker will devour me without mercy.”
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