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[ Woman ] Last nightI dreamt I went to Manderley again.
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It seemed to me I stood by theiron gate leading to the drive,
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and for a whileI could not enter...
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for the way was barred to me.
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Then, like all dreamers,
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I was possessed of a suddenwith supernatural powers...
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and passed like a spiritthrough the barrier before me.
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The drive wound awayin front of me,
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twisting and turningas it had always done.
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But as I advanced, I was awarethat a change had come upon it.
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Nature had comeinto her own again,
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and little by littlehad encroached upon the drive...
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with long, tenacious fiingers.
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On and on wound the poor threadthat had once been our drive,
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and fiinallythere was Manderley.
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Manderley--secretive and silent.
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Time could not mar the perfectsymmetry of those walls.
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Moonlight can playodd tricks upon the fancy,
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and suddenly it seemed to me that lightcame from the windows.
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And then a cloudcame upon the moon...
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and hovered an instantlike a dark hand before a face.
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The illusion went with it.
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