‘That’s just it. Hill sat up on the pavement and mopped the blood from his cheek. Sometimes I
tremble, Anna, to think how near I came to passing through life without a single
glimpse, a moment’s revelation of this greatest and most awful of mysteries, the
mystery of primaeval nature. It was
very pretty and very dainty while it lasted, but we played it with our eyes open,
and we perfectly understood the game—both of us. "
There had never been, from that fatal hour eight months gone down to this, the
inclination to confess. He seemed to be labouring under some great excitement. ‘I can manage now. It was easy to
imagine great power in such a man. To-morrow night
—or rather to-night, for we are fast verging on another day—I propose to lure
him out of the house by a stratagem which I am sure will prove infallible; and,
then, what so easy as to knock him on the head. And so bitterly did the carpenter
reproach himself with his neglect, that he resolved, at all risks, to go back in
search of it. And he
did not lack courage. He did not like it, he said, with a
significant look, to be reminded of either his books or his dinners after he had
done with them. But we wished to ascertain whether Mrs. My nerves are shaken.
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