Then my heart it grew ashen and sober As the leaves that were crisped and sere -- As the leaves that were withering and sere -- And I cried -- "It was surely October On this very
night of last year, That I journeyed -- I journeyed down here!
"I was over in Mill Valley last night," Dave began confusedly.
That was as far as Dave got, for at that moment he witnessed a transformation and found himself gazing into the same unspeakably ferocious blue eyes of the night before, at the same clutching talon-like hands, and at the same formidable bulk in the act of springing upon him.
She was now about to pass her second night in the room occupied in the old days of the palace by Baron Rivar.
And, once more, the frightful dreams of the first night terrified her, following each other in the same succession.
Hugh, deeming it possible that Barnaby was in the hands of the soldiers, and at that moment under detention at The Boot, was for advancing stealthily, and firing the house; but his companions, who objected to such rash measures unless they had a crowd at their backs, represented that if Barnaby were taken he had assuredly been removed to a stronger prison; they would never have dreamed of keeping him all night in a place so weak and open to attack.
To this place, perhaps because its sheds and baskets were a tolerable substitute for beds, or perhaps because it afforded the means of a hasty barricade in case of need, many of the rioters had straggled, not only that night, but for two or three nights before.
Last night they had left a knife on me; to-night I would have a keepsake ready for them.
That night I left this case in my room, locked, and the key in my waistcoat pocket; in the right-hand side-pocket of my overcoat I carried my Deane and Adams, loaded in every chamber; also my right hand, as innocently as you could wish.
`I was very tired, too, after the excitements of the day; so I decided that I would not face it, but would pass the
night upon the open hill.
"How exquisite it all is in this exquisite
night! And when was there time for that cloud-shell to form?
Ten truths must thou find during the day; otherwise wilt thou seek truth during the
night, and thy soul will have been hungry.
Covent Garden Market at sunrise too, in the spring or summer, when the fragrance of sweet flowers is in the air, over-powering even the unwholesome streams of last
night's debauchery, and driving the dusky thrust, whose cage has hung outside a garret window all
night long, half mad with joy!
It was a dark
night, though the full moon rose as I left the enclosed lands, and passed out upon the marshes.
It was past seven o'clock at
night when the grand- mother came home with the pocket-book held tightly in her old hands and she was so excited she could scarcely speak.
