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With like comments he ran down the line till he came to the last man, in front of whom he stepp'd back. "About this last he's a puzzler. Times I put him top o' the list, an' times at the tail.
And then I know not how it happened, but my sword slipp'd like ice out of my grasp, and went flying across the room. Jacques, sedately as on a matter of business, stepp'd to pick it up, while the old gentleman chuckled. I was hot and asham'd, and a score of bitter words sprang to my tongue-tip, when the Frenchman, as he rose from stooping, caught my eye, and beckon'd me across to him.
In the middle of my tale, the servant stepp'd to the door, and return'd quietly. There was no lock on the inside. After a minute he went across, and drew the red curtains. The window had a grating within, of iron bars as thick as a man's thumb, strongly clamp'd in the stonework, and not four inches apart.
I lock'd the door after me, and slip'd the key into my pocket as I sprang up the stairs beyond. But here a light was shining, so once more I extinguish'd my lantern. The steps ended in a long passage, with a handsome lamp hanging at the uttermost end, and beneath this lamp I stepp'd into a place that fill'd me with astonishment. 'Twas, I could not doubt, the entrance hall of the governor's house.
The wife of the chaise-vamper stepp'd in, I told you, to take the papilliotes from off her hair the toilet stands still for no man so she jerk'd off her cap, to begin with them as she open'd the door, in doing which, one of them fell upon the ground I instantly saw it was my own writing O Seigneur! cried I you have got all my remarks upon your head, Madam!
And she push'd open a door at her back, stepp'd through an adjoining room into a yard, whence her voice was the next moment heard calling the person she had mention'd, in accents by no means remarkable for their melody or softness. Her search was successful.
As he shut the door behind him, and stepp'd into the open air, he saw one of his brothers his elder by eight or ten years pacing to and fro with rapid and uneven steps. As the man turn'd in his walk, and the glare of the street lamp fell upon his face, the youth, half-benumb'd as his senses were, was somewhat startled at its paleness and evident perturbation.
Without speech we stepp'd across the turf, he a pace or two ahead. A night breeze was blowing here, delicious after the heat of the fire. We were walking quickly toward the east side of the headland, and soon the blaze behind flung our shadows right to the cliff's edge, for which Billy made straight, as if to fling himself over. But when, at the very verge, he pull'd up, I became enlighten'd.
The door upon the far side was cas'd with iron. Tramp tramp! 'Twas the sound of man's footfall, and to the ear appear'd to be descending a flight of steps on the other side of the door. I bent my ear to the keyhole: then stepp'd to a cask of bullets that stood handy by.
"Of witches' dance, ghastly with whinings thin, And palsied nods mirth, wicked, sad, and weak; And then with show of skill mechanical, Marvellous as witchcraft he would overthrow That vision with a show'r of notes like hail; Flashing the sharp tones now, In downward leaps like swords; now rising fine Into some utmost tip of minute sound, From whence he stepp'd into a higher and higher On viewless points, till laugh took leave of him.
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