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,with fresh fears; I outstripped Kenneth, and ran most of the way back. The little dog was yelping in the garden yet. I spared a minute to ,open the gate for it, but instead of going to the house door, ,it coursed up and down snuffing the grass, ,and would have escaped to the road, had I not seized and conveyed it in with me. On ascending to Isabella's room, my suspicions were , confirmed: it was empty. Had I been a few hours sooner,  ,Mrs Linton's illness might have arrested her rash step. But what could be ,done now? There was a bare possibility of overtaking them if pursued instantly. I could not pursue them, however; and I dare not rouse the family,  , and fill the place with confusion; still less unfold the ,business to my master, absorbed as he was in his present calamity, and having no heart to spare for a second grief! I saw nothing for it but to hold my tongue, and suffer ,matters to take their course; and Kenneth being arrived, I went with a badly composed countenance to announce him. Catherine lay in a ,troubled sleep: her husband had succeeded in soothing the ,access of frenzy: he now hung over her pillow,  ,watching every shade, and every change of her painfully expressive features.