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The stones on which they trod seemed to snap back in the echo of their footfalls a harsh, strident laugh of derision. Every shadow grinned mockingly at her; the very darkness ahead of the lantern's way seemed to snort angrily at the approach of the intruders. The whole of that rockbound dungeon roared defiance in answer to her timid prayer, and snarled an ugly challenge to her courage.
Surrendering myself to the grasp of Beethoven's powerful conception, I read in sounds far more expressive than words, the almost despairing agony of the strong-hearted, but still tender and womanly Fidelio the ecstatic joy of the wasted prisoner, when he rose from his hard couch in the dungeon, seeming to fuel, in his maniac brain, the presentiment of a bright being who would come to unbind his chains and. the sobbing and wailing, almost-human, which came from the orchestra, when they dug his grave, by the dim lantern's light.
Then came a straining and splitting of wood, and with a crash the door gave way. A lantern's rays shot through the hall. "The house is as dark as a tomb," said a voice. "And as empty, I reckon," said another. "John Temple and his spy have got away." "We'll have a search," answered the first voice. They stood for a moment in the drawing-room door, peering, and then they entered.
She was gone swiftly, all but silently, through the gloom, her form vaguely outlined against the lantern's glimmer, to bring the food and water which she had set down when she came in. Judith drank and ate. It was only little by little, in fragments which she obtained during the slow days which followed, that she came to understand Trevors's scheme.
Suddenly someone in the room struck a flint and lit a lantern. Lovel set his eyes to a crack and stood very still. The woman had gone, and the room held three men. One lay on the floor with a coarse kerchief, such as grooms wear, knotted round his throat. Over him bent a man in a long coat with a cape, a man in a dark peruke, whose face was clear in the lantern's light.
And the lantern's light gave the lustre of the full moon over the whole earth; yes, the earth itself became transparent, as the still waters of the deep sea, or the glass mountains, in the fairy tale. "My kingdom is thine! sing what thou see'st; sing as if no bard before thee had sung thereof." And it was as if the scene continually changed.
Still holding the lantern for him, turning as he came closer, she saw that the cave was lofty and wide, that it ran farther back into the mountain than her lantern's rays could follow. "Back there," said Norton, "you'll find blankets. I'll hold him while you spread some out for him."
Then came a straining and splitting of wood, and with a crash the door gave way. A lantern's rays shot through the hall. "The house is as dark as a tomb," said a voice. "And as empty, I reckon," said another. "John Temple and his spy have got away." "We'll have a search," answered the first voice. They stood for a moment in the drawing-room door, peering, and then they entered.
Then you give me that book I hain't had much education, but it come across me if you was to help me that way And when I seed you with Worthington, I could have killed him easy as breakin' bark." "Hush, Jethro." She struggled free and leaped away from him, panting, while he tore open his coat and drew forth something which gleamed in the lantern's rays a silver locket. Cynthia scarcely saw it.
Then they saw the party from the 'Waverly' hunting on shore, with lantern's, and they took to the woods. That pair of rascals knew how risky it would be for them to try to leave at the local railway station today, so they struck off through the woods on foot making for another town at a distance.
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