text: ) The world as it were already left behind or rather below the elements alone warring round her her high-wrought imagination began to regard life and death and the world itself as things no longer appertaining to her except as a passive instrument toward one great object the preservation of her father's freedom and if it _were_ possible also of her own inviolate person--that person which she had indeed most solemnly vowed to one alone David the Telynwr