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Updated: May 6, 2025
At the sound of the deep, rich, mellow voice, the figure started back as though it had been struck a sudden blow, the black-shrouded hand that held the candle shook as if from palsy. "Come in," replied a muffled voice, that sounded like nothing human, it was so weird.
Occasionally she stole a glance through her thick vail toward her three fellow passengers, who sat opposite to her, on the back seat three silent, black-shrouded figures who sat mute and motionless as watchers of the dead. Very terrifying, but very appropriate figures to take part in her nightmare dream.
I saw some one sitting in the hall as if waiting, a woman, a girl, a black-shrouded figure, with a thick veil over her face; and asked myself who she was, and what she wanted there.
These specks did not move in a circle but came flapping grotesquely toward a central point. The scout of the buzzard flock had made his reconnoissance and by settling had signaled back his message. Nine other buzzards followed him and took up their patient watch upon the highest branches of the tall tree. Like black-shrouded, red-hooded ghouls they took their watch waiting, waiting, waiting.
Amber found himself unexpectedly in the middle of the street and, without stopping to debate the method of his getting there with such unprecedented rapidity, looked back hopefully to the tomb. At the same moment a black-shrouded figure swept out of it and moved a few paces down the street, then paused and beckoned him with a gaunt arm. "I wish," said Amber earnestly, "I had that gun."
Romola's black-shrouded figure had escaped notice, and she now stood behind her husband's shoulder in the corner of the loggia. Tito was not left to hope long. "Ha! my carrier-pigeon!" grated Spini's harsh voice, in what he meant to be an undertone, while his hand grasped Tito's shoulder; "what did you run into hiding for? You didn't know it was comrades who were coming.
He could have groaned aloud in his helplessness to avert the catastrophe that he saw coming. It was as if a horrible, black-shrouded shape had stepped between him and Colina. She, too, was aware of it. For an age-long moment they stared at each other with a kind of chilled terror. Neither dared speak of what both were thinking. At last Colina tried to wave the hideous fantom away.
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