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With this dreadful sound in his ears, Barnabas hurried away from

that place of horror; but ever the sound pursued him, it echoed in

his step, it panted in his quickened breathing, it throbbed in the

pulsing of his heart Wherever he looked, there alas Jasper

Gaunt lolling in his chair with his head dangling at its horrible

angle,--the very night was full of hiy streets and silent houses, and with

his chin now on one shoulder, now on the other; and thus, he

presently found hi its

faulty catch, tried it but found it fast Therefore he knocked,

softly at first, but louder and louder until at length the door was

plucked suddenly open and a woman appeared, a slatternly creature

who bore a candle none too steadily

"Now then, owdacious," she began, soht--knocking at 'spectable door of

a person?"

"Is Mr Barrymaine in?"

"Mist' Barryrease-spots as

she raised the candle in her unsteady hand, "what d'ye wan' this

tinificence of the visitor's attire,

she dropped Barnabas a floundering curtsy and showered the step with