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    see hiifl r and as he was also in earnest application of his military decision on the materials before him , fortunately , his entire attention was engrossed . The back of the kneeling figure was towards the onl y light which came into the room , consequently his , face was indistinct , in shadow ; but his attitude was of eager , violent ,

    nay agonized imploration ; he writhed in his position , and it was to me he was appealing ! I was almost petrified by it ! tUl an exclamation was risin g to my lips , when he sprang noiselessly to his feet , pressed his finger on his lip , pointed to my companion , and then clenched his hand together again , to bid nae , as I understood him , be wary and silent . Apprehension and bewildering doubts threw me into a cold perspiration ; still I

    continued , instinctively , I suppose , or mechanically , to make such movements and sounds as would keep my companion ' s attention to himself ; though , indeed , the effort to suppress nay strong impulses was one of the most difficult I ever made . I looked a meaning that I understood him , and should be cautious ,, although

    in truth I was throbbingly agitated with a sense of some mysterious and dreadful danger . In the dimness of view in which the man ' face was presented , I was struck with a dizzy wandering fancy that I had seen him before—but where ? when ? He certainly knew me : but how ? He guessed my thoughts , and , taking hold of a bottle of wine , filled my friend ' s glass ; then moving

    from the window , under the pretence of doing the same office for me , the light fell on his countenance , as he looked at me an instant ; then he drew back , and bowed his head down on his joined hands , which he clenched so hard , as though he would

    crush the blood through his fingers . It was Fulgaz who stood there ! and , thank God , I became instantly calm and collected , or I should have betrayed him : thou g h , probably , to the inner breast of one of the brotherhood , his whole story was known—and there it was a sacred deposit . Painful as was compliance , I could

    not resist the intensely passionate but soundless appeals he made to me for the purpose , and assuming a carelessness of manner , lest my companion ' s curiosity should be excited , found an excuse for leaving the room a few minutes after Fulgaz had quitted it , intimating by signal , as he did so , that he would wait for me : and never wilithe . impression of that few minutes' interview be eraped from my memory .. I have said how exquisitely , how intensely cold was the air : yet there he stood , bare-headed , his once darkly-brown ^ e , in ashy , ghastly hue , and beaded streams of agonizing 8 weat chasing each other down his cheeks actually freezing as

    they flowed ! He stood and looked ! then poured forth a rapid torrent of short , unconnected sentences , but most eloquent , most distressing ! Now rigid , stiff as ice he stood—now quivering ^ like an ^ pen : then suddenly paused , and again , as if suffocating , he prgled out ,- r I was too bad to die ! ' and fell / or rather dashed himself down : his forehead struck on fc Uttfe elevated mass of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 797, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/51/