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"Quite a select party, sir," remarked Carrick in comment, while Carter still tried to pierce the gloom to establish the identity of the invisible visitant. "About three," replied Carter. The sounds stopped directly opposite their door. There was a grating of a key against the lock and the door swung open. The Gray Man stood in front of the narrow entrance.
This time his chuckle had an undernote of malice; and Roy, considering him thoughtfully from green turban to patent-leather shoes felt an acute desire to take him by the scruff of his English coat and dust the Jaipur market-place with the remnant of him. Aloud he said coolly: "Thanks for the prescription. Are you stopping here long?" "Oh, I am meteoric visitant. Never very long anywhere.
He scouted the harsh criticisms of Aunt Viney, even while he shrank from proving to her her mistake in the quality of his mysterious visitant. Of course she was a lady far superior to any of her race whom he had yet met. Yet how should he find WHO she was?
I had determined now that he was some religious leader of Islam in England, who had been deputed to approach me; and, let me add, I was sorely tempted to accede to his proposal, for nothing would be gained by any one if the slipper remained for ever at the museum, whereas by conniving at its recovery by those who, after all, were its rightful owners I should be ridding England of a weird and undesirable visitant.
'It can, cried Markheim; 'it does! Be helped by you? No, never; not by you! You do not know me yet; thank God, you do not know me! 'I know you, replied the visitant, with a sort of kind severity or rather firmness. 'I know you to the soul. 'Know me! cried Markheim. 'Who can do so? My life is but a travesty and slander on myself. I have lived to belie my nature.
Standing before them, in a dress of some soft snowy shining fabric, neither silk nor crape, with white starry jasmines in her raven hair and upon her bosom, Regina seemed some angelic visitant sent to still the strife of human passions, so lovely and pure was her colourless face; and as General Laurance looked up at her, he rose suddenly.
A ghostly visitant, born of his own resentment and gloom, gives him the boon he seeks, and enables him to go about the world freezing all recollection in those he meets. And lo the boon turns out to be a curse. His presence blights those on whom it falls.
Groby prodded him into complete wakefulness, and then the pettish self-satisfied pianist fairly lost his temper and slapped his domineering visitant on the hand.
A tall, spectral figure, robed in a long garment of grey serge; a scarlet handkerchief twisted round the head rendered the white face whiter by contrast with it. As this awful figure approached, Susan Trott stepped backwards on the grass, leaving the pathway clear for the dreadful visitant. The ghostly form stalked on with slow and solemn steps, and entered the house by the scullery door.
He instantly detected the diabolical quality of his visitant, and was prepared. With equal coolness and courtesy he met the cavalier's obeisance. "I ask your pardon, Sir Priest," said the stranger, "for disturbing your meditations. Pleasant they must have been, and right fanciful, I imagine, when occasioned by so fair a prospect."
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