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Then he went to his room for his hand-lamp, as described, and after satisfying himself about that conflagration's non-existence, was just in time to cross Miss Dickenson, a waif overdue, and wonder what on earth had made that very spirit and image of all conformity guilty of such a lapse. Then followed his interview with Mr. Torrens already detailed. Perhaps the foregoing should have come first.
When the Englishman came, the other men, who knew he had been a medical student, made way for him. He knelt down by Peter Halket. "He's dead," he said, quietly. When they had turned him over, the Colonial knelt down on the other side, with a little hand-lamp in his hand. "What are you fellows fooling about here for?" cried the Captain.
I'm a crank on ancient houses and furniture. Wish you had some old mahogany that's what you need in these rooms." Max procured a small hand-lamp from the kitchen, and proceeded to escort his guest about.
He went out into the yard with a hand-lamp, trembling lest he should come upon one or more corpses; but the place was bare, and he then remembered having heard them stumble and flounder over the wall. He came back in utter bewilderment; the statue, standing calm and lifeless as he had himself placed it, could tell him nothing, and he went back to his bedroom full of the vaguest fears.
'And to be murdered thus by a great thumb-fingered dragoneer! With a lens and a delicate needle, he began to peer and prise in it; and anon, fixing the lens in his eye, reached out for his hand-lamp. 'To what use have you designed it, sir? I asked, after a while spent in watching him. 'To no use at all, soldier, he answered, more tartly.
Placing upon the floor the small hand-lamp which he carried, he flung himself carelessly down on the stone bench; and, with an evil smile hovering about his lips, began to jeer at my unfortunate situation. "Well, signor Englishman," he commenced, "how like you your new lodging? It is scarcely so large, and I fear it is not as elegantly furnished, as Francesca Paoli's silken chamber, is it?
In the next room, to which she timidly felt her way, a slave lay snoring; beside him were a wine jar and a hand-lamp. The sight somewhat reassured her. Beyond was the bishop's bedroom, which she had never been into. A dim light gleamed through the open door and she heard a low moaning and gasping. She called the house-keeper by name once, twice; no answer.
Tarns lighted a benzolene hand-lamp at the gas, and silently left the bedroom. She still somewhat feared an unlawful invader, but the arrival of Rachel had reassured her. Preceded by the waving little flame, she passed Rachel's door, which was closed, and went downstairs. Every mysterious room on the ground floor was in order and empty. No sign of an invasion.
So she felt convinced that she had all the small hours before her, secure from interruption. And this time, she told herself, she purposed making assurance doubly sure.... But first to guard against discovery from the street. Turning back through the hall, she dispensed with the hand-lamp, entering the darkened study.
Nay, thou wilt attempt laughter; whoso recognizes the unfathomable, all-pervading domain of Mystery, which is everywhere under our feet and among our hands; to whom the Universe is an Oracle and Temple, as well as a Kitchen and Cattle-stall, he shall be a delirious Mystic; to him thou, with sniffing charity, wilt protrusively proffer thy hand-lamp, and shriek, as one injured, when he kicks his foot through it?
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