Word: missteping
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Dates: during 1881-1881
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Merciful heaven! what was it I saw as I glanced again at the window? Only a little white-robed figure walking with outstretched arms along the pier, over those surging waves where a single misstep was death. For a moment I was paralyzed, incapable. Then I leapt forward - down the stairs - out into the night! If I could but reach her before . . . I could only complete the thought with a shudder...