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No sooner had I spoken these words, than I felt an icy chill creep to my heart. And now my own casual self-suggestion that I might possibly be fool enough to confess the murder of which I had been guilty, confronted me, as if the very ghost of him whom I had murdered and beckoned me on to death. At first, I made an effort to shake off this nightmare of the soul.
I awoke with a chill feeling, as if the fire had gone down. A draught seemed blowing upon me. I got up with a full sense of my position as keeper of that fire, and went to it. The door into the hall was open. I glanced at the bed; Miss Axtell was not there. The hall was dark. I caught up the lamp and hurried out. I leaned over the balustrade and looked down the stairway.
Even on the mountain road the air was still sharp, and that urgent necessity for something to keep out the chill, which sent the barkeeper sleepily among his bottles and wineglasses at the station, obtained all along the road. Perhaps it might be said that the first stir of life was in the bar-rooms.
If they had lived to three-score and ten, man and dog might have traveled through life together, but, as it is, we must either have a succession of affections, or else, when the first is buried in its early grave, live in a chill condition of dog-less-ness." I thank him for that expressive compound word.
"I say you are cold; come a little closer to me. What will your mamma say if you catch a chill?" and he drew Fanny a little nearer to him. The thick blood now drove through him with increasing speed: everything seemed in a mist, and a little perspiration was on his forehead.
Was it the ghastly and spectral light of the Moon, or did the face of that old Egyptian Monster wear an aspect that was as of life? The stony eyeballs seemed bent upon him with a malignant scowl; and as he passed on, and looked behind, they appeared almost preternaturally to follow his steps. A chill, he knew not why, sunk into his heart. He hastened to regain his palace.
There had formerly been a defense against the Indians on this hill, which in the daytime commanded a fine view of the surrounding country, and the low earthworks or foundations of the garrison were still plainly to be seen. The woman seated herself on the sunken wall in spite of the dampness and increasing chill, still holding the child, and rocking to and fro like one in despair.
The persecution lasted twenty-eight years, with few "blinks" to take the chill of horror out of the air. During this time, 18,000 persons, it is said, suffered death, or utmost hardships, for their faith in Jesus Christ.
Everyone has a right to be miserable in his own way, but I prefer to be comfortable." Her ripple of laughter struck a chill to Guest's heart. He looked at her moodily beneath knitted brows. "How is it that we always do feel differently? We seem never to agree. What is the explanation, I wonder?" "We are different!" returned Cornelia, simply. "The difference is deep down beneath all we say or do.
But if you go and come no more, then I surely shall stay until I find a way to trace you or until the Thing kills me." "No!" "Yes." There was a pause. Then, to my utter dismay, I heard her sobbing through the dark. "Why do you tempt me?" she reproached. "Is it not hard enough, my duty? For me it is such pleasure to be here to leave for a while the loneliness and chill of my narrow place!
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