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"My surroundings are so extremely cheerful," remarked Dorothy, "that I've decided to spend the afternoon in the library reading Poe. I've always wanted to do it and I don't believe I'll ever feel any creepier than I do this blessed minute."
Well, everything was so awful still that we got to talking in a very low voice, and kept on getting creepier and lonesomer and less and less talky, till at last the talk ran dry altogether, and we just set there and "thunk," as Jim calls it, and never said a word the longest time.
A creepier feeling than ever came over the two English listeners at those astounding words. "Great heavens!" Felix exclaimed to the unsuspecting Frenchman, "he speaks in the style of the Stuarts and the Commonwealth!" The Frenchman started. "Époque Louis Quatorze!" he murmured, translating the date mentally into his own more familiar chronology. "Two centuries since! Oh, incredible! incredible!
The whirr and confusion from all the serpent-houses were so great that the youth did not dare to advance one step, but remained where he was, watching intently all that went on; but at last he began to take courage, and moved on softly step by step. What he saw was creepier than creepy, and surpassed all he had ever dreamt of.
Jerry's voice, betraying her eagerness to quit the tower room, made Gyp feel creepier than ever. Each took a corner of the ghostly envelope and slipped it between the pages of the Bible. "There it's safe enough now. We can take turns carrying it." The girls hurriedly donned their outer wraps. Then, without one backward glance, they tiptoed down the narrow stair.
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