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Updated: June 17, 2025
The wider I open the door, the ghastlier the scene. Worse the horrors. More desperate recoils. Deeper curses. More blood. I can no longer endure the vision, and I shut the door, and cover my eyes, and turn my back, and cry, "God pity them!" Some one may say, "What is the use of such an exposure as you propose to make? Our families are all respectable."
Ten times ghastlier than if it had been real, the chorus wailed and ululated back and forth along immeasurable distances became one yell again and went howling down into earth's bowels as if the last of a phantom pack were left behind and yelling to be waited for. When it ceased at last King was sweating. "Nor am I afraid," she laughed, squeezing his hand yet tighter.
The cry is answered by other braves; and some of them do it even better than the coyotes, who are not very good at it. So the chill hours wear on, and the long suspense is horribly trying to the paleface who has to live through it for the first time; but to the trained hand those ghastly calls and still ghastlier silences are but an intimation of how the night is marching.
With a sudden wrench he tore the shirt from neck to waist, and on his strong brown shoulders showed me furrows deeply ploughed, wounds which, though healed, were ghastlier to me than any in that house. I could not speak to him, and, with the pathetic dignity a great grief lends the humblest sufferer, he ended his brief tragedy by simply saying, "That's all. Ma'am.
Before Faith could comprehend, or turn, or cry out, the paleness blanched ghastlier over his features, and the strong man fell back, fainting. With quick, professional instinct, Miss Sampson sprang forward, seizing, as she did so, an ice-water pitcher from the table. "There, take this!" said she to Faith, "and sprinkle him with it, while I loosen his neckcloth!
The only difficult moment would be the first to obfuscate him immediately with the notion that he had mixed up the two addresses. Even if she failed and he realised his ghastlier blunder, it would only precipitate the dramatic duel which she must face sooner or later.
The passages selected to this end from his famous story of Oliver Twist were those relating more particularly to the Murder of Nancy by Bill Sikes. A ghastlier atrocity than that murder could hardly be imagined. In the book itself, as will be remembered, the crime is painted as with a brush dipped in blood rather than pigment.
Go up that dark court. Be careful, or you will fall over the prostrate form of a drunkard lying on his own worn step. Look about you, or you will feel the garroter's hug. Try to look in through that broken pane! What do you see? Nothing. But listen. What is it? "God help us!" No footlights, but tragedy mightier, ghastlier than Ristori or Edwin Booth ever acted. No bread. No light. No fire.
Daniel Levy, the financier, reported shot dead at front gates of his residence in Thames Valley at 5.30 this afternoon, by unknown man who made good his escape. I looked up into a ghastly face. "It was half-past five when I left him, Bunny!" "You left him " I could not ask it. But the ghastly face had given me a ghastlier thought. "As well as you are, Bunny!" so Raffles completed my sentence.
Then, appearing fiendishly hideous, ghastlier than words can fitly picture, these revolting figures began with wild chanting to make offerings to their gods, dancing and capering before the flame to an accompaniment of dismal music, burning some incense which polluted the air.
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