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Updated: June 11, 2025
The marine visitors swim up stream into the snare, and on and on into the ever-narrowing trap for it is not their custom to turn back until they find themselves in the death-chamber from which there is no release. The voices of this sublime region are superhuman. A perpetual universal tumult; so monotonous, so nearly akin to silence and yet so distinct as if it uttered the name of God.
Alone in her dominion, the inheritress entered the death-chamber, and there passed an hour upon her knees. Whilst she was thus secluded, a pealing storm traversed the sky. When Aurelia came forth again, her face was wan, tearstained. She summoned her nurse, and held much talk with her as to the significance of thunder whilst a corpse lay in the house.
When I started out as Lane's blood-avenger, I suppose I expected things to end somewhere out of sight, in a nice, antiseptic death-chamber at the state penitentiary. You must admit that that business in the library was really bringing it home. There's no question that you got the man who killed Lane, and if you hadn't, I'd never have been at peace with myself.
They had opened cabinets, peered into secret drawers, sniffed at the stale pot-pourri in old crackle vases; they had dragged their willing victim through all the long slippery passages, by all the mysterious stairs and by-ways; they had obliged her to look at the interior of ghostly closets, where the ladies of old had stored their house linen or hung their mantuas and farthingales; they had made her look out of numerous windows to admire the prospect; they had introduced her to the state bedroom in which the heads of the Wendover race made a point of being born; they made her peep shuddering into the death-chamber where the family were laid in their last slumber.
The scenes at Jordan and in the death-chamber are not the only times in Elisha's life when we read of these chariots and horses of fire. There was another incident in his career in which the same phrase occurs.
The doctor made a slight gesture toward the white canvas screen which in such places forms the death-chamber of the poor and friendless. "Come round this way he won't know you! I've got rather fond of the poor old fellow. He wouldn't have a clergyman sort of agnostic, isn't he? A good many of these Germans are but the young lady who's been coming to see him " They both stopped.
Sir Eberhard led the way up the turret stairs to the open door, and the monk entered the death-chamber. The elder Baron sat near the fire in the large wooden chair, half turned towards his daughter, as one who must needs be present, but with his face buried in his hands, unable to endure the spectacle.
The gale pounced on him like a tiger on its half-escaped prey. It beat him flat, worried him, did its best to tear him off and fling him into the sea. But Heavens! how sweet it was after the musty quiet of the death-chamber below! Inch by inch, he worked his way back in the teeth of it, and crawled spent into his bee-hive.
The affection of the heart from which he had suffered must have been of long standing a great deal of overwork, a certain part of heredity, and, finally, his late absorbing love, and the poor heart had broken. "Let us go upstairs," said Clotilde simply. "I wish to see him." Upstairs in the death-chamber the blinds were closed, shutting out even the melancholy twilight.
The remains were laid out on the bed, and the doors of the apartment were set open, doors which had remained closed ever since the Revolution had seized on a child, then full of vigour and grace and life and health! When they were admitted to the death-chamber by Lasne and Damont they affected the greatest indifference.
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