The Eerie BookMargaret Armour J. Shiells & Company, 1898 - 207 pàgines |
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Adorni agitated amongst Amontillado answer ante-chapel appeared arms beautiful beheld believe Benoît Bertalda CASK OF AMONTILLADO castle Catherine Crowe cavaliers chamber child Clerval clock cold cottage countenance dæmon dark death despair door dreadful dungeon Elizabeth endeavoured exclaimed eyes Falkenberg father fear feelings fell felt Fortunato Françoise Frankenstein gazed hand head heard heart horror hour human Ingolstadt iron coffin Klosterheim knew ladies Landgrave Landgrave's length light looked Lucrezia Lucrezia Borgia marriage Masque Maximilian Michel misery Mont Blanc mother Mungo murder mysterious night ODESSA Otto Pianalla passed passion Paulina person present Prince regiment remained replied scene seemed seen seized seneschal side silence sleep soon sound St Agnes St Aldenheim stood sudden suddenly summoned Swedish army tell terror thou thought Tregeagle trepanned turned Undine uttered voice walls whilst woman words wretch young
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Pàgina 63 - were a great and numerous family." " I forget your arms." " A huge human foot d'or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.
Pàgina 61 - I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat.
Pàgina 5 - They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy from within. The abbey was amply provisioned. With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think. The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine....
Pàgina 61 - I have my doubts," I replied ; "and I was. silly enough to pay the full Amontillado price without consulting you in the matter. You were not to be found, and I was fearful of losing a bargain." "Amontillado!
Pàgina 63 - see, it increases. It hangs like moss upon the vaults. We are below the river's bed. The drops of moisture trickle among the bones. Come, we will go back ere it is too late. Your cough" — • "It is nothing," he said; "let us go on. But first, another draught of the Medoc.
Pàgina 62 - ... the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house. These orders were sufficient, I well knew, to insure their immediate disappearance, one and all, as soon as my back was turned. I took from their sconces two flambeaux, and giving one to Fortunato, bowed him through several suites of rooms to the archway that led into the vaults.
Pàgina 6 - Now in no one of the seven apartments was there any lamp or candelabrum, amid the profusion of golden ornaments that lay scattered to and fro or depended from the roof. There was no light of any kind emanating from lamp or candle within the suite of chambers.
Pàgina 7 - ... or meditation. But when the echoes had fully ceased, a light laughter at once pervaded the assembly ; the musicians looked at each other and smiled as if at their own nervousness and folly, and made whispering vows, each to the other, that the next chiming of the clock should produce in them no similar emotion ; and then, after the lapse of sixty minutes (which embrace three thousand and six hundred seconds of the Time that flies), there came yet another chiming of the clock, and then were the...
Pàgina 79 - It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet...
Pàgina 9 - And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.