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As the helper stared wonderingly at the box and the nose, the boy sprang from his seat and joined him. "That's him," declared the boy. "Hi, there, Job, tune up now! What's the matter with ye?" His answer was an unearthly howl from the box, accompanied by a mighty scratching. The boy laughed delightedly. "Ain't he a wonder?" he demanded. "Ought to be in church choir, hadn't he."
He had opened, not only the glass window, but the lattice blind outside it, and he had closed both again, and he shivered through his frame. From the streets beyond the high wall and the strong gate, there came the usual night hum of the city, with now and then an indescribable ring in it, weird and unearthly, as if some unwonted sounds of a terrible nature were going up to Heaven.
This unearthly glimmer, faint as it was, helped us much, indeed but for it we must have been overtaken, for here the ground was very rough, full of holes also made by burrowing marmots.
The smile of this white face is so unearthly, that neither joy nor good-humour is reflected from it, but something of a higher order, which the human heart is not pure enough to comprehend. The old man lies there on the ground, with his fingers clutching his grey locks, and the ground on which his face has rested is wet.
The firm ring now opened; but as the young man started off, the crone called after him: "Ay, run, run thy ways, thou Devil's bird! To the crystal run to the crystal!" The squealing, creaking voice of the woman had something unearthly in it, so that the promenaders paused in amazement, and the laugh, which at first had been universal, instantly died away.
A dark rising ground covered with wood sometimes rose between her and the western horizon; and then a long stretch of snow, only less pure, would leave free view of its unearthly white light, dimmed by no exhalation, a gentle, mute, but not the less eloquent, witness to earth of what heaven must be. But the sleigh stopped at the gate, and Fleda's musings came home.
Ho! more and more. This way comes Pip poor boy! would he had died, or I; he's half horrible to me. He too has been watching all of these interpreters myself included and look now, he comes to read, with that unearthly idiot face. Stand away again and hear him. Hark!" "I look, you look, he looks; we look, ye look, they look." "Upon my soul, he's been studying Murray's Grammar!
Just as they were passing out of the dining-room, midnight began to boom from the clock tower, and when the last stroke sounded they heard a crash and a sudden shrill cry; a dreadful peal of thunder shook the house, a strain of unearthly music floated through the air, a panel at the top of the staircase flew back with a loud noise, and out on the landing, looking very pale and white, with a little casket in her hand, stepped Virginia.
It was the most unearthly, horrible sound I have ever heard, and may God save me from hearing the like again. Next day I tried to see Betty, but it was no use, she would see no one. And soon after I heard she was ill, typhoid fever. It had been working on her for some time. There was almost no hope from the very first.
Clancy has saved us both from destruction. For my sake and Aun' Sheba's as well as your own, you must let him do all in his power." The earthly, yet unearthly, rumble of another shock put an end to further hesitation. It would be long before the terror inspired by this phenomenon would cease to be overwhelming.
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