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Mistress Affery, heartily glad to effect the proposed coentle his cloak, took a short run at the narro,his way up the bricks, and in

ait His eyes looked so very

sinister, as he put his leg into the rooht with a sudden coldness, if he were to go

straight up-stairs to murder the invalid, what could she do to prevent

him? Happily he had no such purpose; for he reappeared, in a moment, at the

house door 'Now, my dear madam,' he said, as he took back his cloak and

threw it on, 'if you have the goodness to--what the Devil's that!'

The strangest of sounds Evidently close at hand from the peculiar

shock it communicated to the air, yet subdued as if it were far off A

treht dry matter

'What the Devil is it?' 'I don't knohat it is, but I've heard the like of it over and over