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The watchman retired without speaking to the confused and astonished husband, who, recovering his presence of mind, reclosed the door and followed his wife to their chamber. "Esther! What is the meaning of all this?" asked Mr. Howland, with much severity of manner. But there was no reply. "Will you speak?" said he, in a tone of authority. The home-tyrant had gone a step too far.
He was, of course, unaware of the cock-and-bull story which his strange chauffeur had told, and feared that at any moment he might find himself under arrest. While the door remained open there was danger. At last, however, the man reclosed it. Hugh's heart gave a great bound. The chauffeur had restarted the engine, and mounting to the wheel shouted a merry: "Buona notte, signori!"
At that moment the door opened; at its threshold there stood the man's mother whom he had never allowed to influence his conduct, though he loved her well in his rough way and the hated fellow-man whom he longed to see dead at his feet. The door reclosed: the mother was gone, without a word, for her tears choked her; the fellow-man was alone with him.
The door of the secret room he likewise carefully reclosed; then passed through the library, the drawing-room, and into the kitchen. There was no stir, and he laid his bag of booty upon the bed which poor Bridget had so kindly spread for him.
Though at times, when looking back, oppressed by the blackest despair, no remorse of the past ever weakened those nerves when the Hour called up its demon, and the Will ruled the rest of the human being as a machine. She replaced the ring, she reclosed the casket, relocked its depository; then passed again into the adjoining chamber.
Joe sighed and reclosed his eyes; but it was only for a second. He opened them again and went on. "Say, you won't tell her Miss Dianny. Don't you tell her. Pore little soul, she'll wep them pretty eyes o' hers out, sure. Y' see, I know her. Y' see, I did git drunk yesterday. I knew I'd git it. So it don't signify. Don't tell her." "She'll be sure to hear of it."
The impish grin of the latent savage broke through the habitual austerity of Victor's countenance. "There is no more," he said, "but this: Sleep now, and do not waken before noon to-morrow sleep!" With a quavering sigh, the girl reclosed her eyes and instantly relapsed into the sleep of trance which was insensibly in the course of the night to merge into natural slumber.
"Enter, friend," said the inmate, with a sort of complacent grunt; and as Dalibard obeyed, the man reclosed and barred the door. The room was bare to beggary; the ceiling, low and sloping, was blackened with smoke. A wretched bed, two chairs, a table, a strong chest, a small cracked looking-glass, completed the inventory.
Wyley cross the floor of his room above, and open his window; but there was silence again, and the chime of the house clock striking eleven was the only sound that broke the silence until the casement above was reclosed, and the master's footfall returned across the room.
His head swam, and he felt as if some material force was bending down his body sideways from her. Such, nevertheless, was his self- possession, that he reclosed his eyes, and went on with his prayer if that could in any sense be prayer where he knew neither word he uttered, thing he thought, nor feeling that moved him. With Claudius in Hamlet he might have said,
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