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Chapter 7. Part 1. June 19th.

The events of yesterday warned me to be ready sooner or later to meet the worst.

Today is not yet at an end, and the worst has come.

Judging by the closest calculation of time that Laura and I could make,

we arrived at the conclusion that Anne Catholic must have appeared at the boat house

at half past two o'clock on the afternoon of yesterday.

I accordingly arranged that Laura should just show herself at the luncheon table today

and should then slip out at the first opportunity,

leaving me behind to preserve appearances,

and to follow her as soon as I could safely do so.

This mode of proceeding, if no obstacles, occurred to thwart us,

would enable her to be at the boat house before half past two,

and when I left the table in my turn,

would take me to a safe position in the plantation before three.

The change in the weather, which last night's wind,

warned us to expect, came with the morning.

It was raining heavily when I got up and continued to rain until 12 o'clock,

when the clouds dispersed, the blue sky appeared,

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