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And now in conjunction therewith consider this other: "It is the Night of the World, and still long till it be Day: we wander amid the glimmer of smoking ruins, and the Sun and the Stars of Heaven are as if blotted out for a season; and two immeasurable Phantoms, HYPOCRISY and ATHEISM, with the Ghoul, SENSUALITY, stalk abroad over the Earth, and call it theirs: well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream."
After listening to one of these authentic narratives, we used to be very reluctant to retire to our dormitories, and never ventured to get into bed till we had examined suspicious-looking closets, old wardrobes, and, indeed, every nook and corner that might be supposed to harbor a ghost or a ghoul.
It is true the steel was as bright as silver; but what were we to do? Miss Matty picked up her peas, one by one, on the point of the prongs, much as Amine ate her grains of rice after her previous feast with the Ghoul. Miss Pole sighed over her delicate young peas as she left them on one side of her plate untasted, for they WOULD drop between the prongs.
It clung there, as if trying to live. Five, ten, fifteen minutes it clung, being beaten and ripped against the teeth of the rock; then suddenly it split and dissolved from view. Neil had the telescope at his eye again. He handed it to me quickly. "George! look and tell me. D'ye see anybody clinging there to the far tooth of The Ghoul? My eyes ain't too good.
The victim in Motherwell's ballad of the Demon Lady, or the poor fellow in the Arabian tale who discovered that he had married a ghoul in the guise of a young and blooming princess, was scarcely in a more sorrowful predicament. He grew nervous and fretful.
"The newspapers say 'hibernation, and I suppose they know what they are talking about. If you don't know what it is, don't be ashamed to say so." "Well, then, I don't." "In that case you had better read the papers and find out," she said, a little illogically. And then: "Are you fond of murders? I am, awfully." "What a shocking little ghoul you must be!" I exclaimed.
Surely an unaccountable sort of expedition! That Durdles himself, who is always prowling among old graves, and ruins, like a Ghoul that he should be stealing forth to climb, and dive, and wander without an object, is nothing extraordinary; but that the Choir- Master or any one else should hold it worth his while to be with him, and to study moonlight effects in such company is another affair.
We heard him mount the stairs directly. He did not proceed to his ordinary chamber, but turned into that with the paneled bed; its window, as I mentioned before, is wide enough for anybody to get through, and it struck me that he plotted another midnight excursion, which he had rather we had no suspicion of. "Is he a ghoul, or a vampire?" I mused. I had read of such hideous incarnate demons.
"No, Al," replied Dick, very soberly. "I haven't robbed a treasure ship, but I've been prowling with success over a lost battlefield a ghoul I believe they call such a person, but it had to be done. I've enough food here to last a week at least, and we may find more." He put down his pack and took out the bacon. As Albert looked at it he began unconsciously to clinch and unclinch his teeth.
Lester's death was the outcome of political revenge rather than an incident in an interrupted burglary. "At first, every indication pointed to the act of some ghoul surprised by the unfortunate lady in her bedroom, but we have reason to believe that graver issues to the community-at-large will be revealed when Scotland Yard's inquiry is completed.
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