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A new Acquaintance — The Stroller’s Tale — A disagreeable Interruption, and an unpleasant Encounter

           Hehidhisfaceinhisburninghands,andfeeblybemoanedhisownweakness,andthecrueltyofhispersecutors.Ashortpause,andheshoutedoutafewdoggerelrhymes—thelasthehadeverlearned.Heroseinbed,drewuphiswitheredlimbs,androlledaboutinuncouthpositions;hewasacting—hewasatthetheatre.Aminute’ssilence,andhemurmuredtheburdenofsomeroaringsong.Hehadreachedtheoldhouseatlast—howhottheroomwas.Hehadbeenill,veryill,buthewaswellnow,andhappy.Filluphisglass.Whowasthat,thatdasheditfromhislips?Itwasthesamepersecutorthathadfollowedhimbefore.Hefellbackuponhispillowandmoanedaloud.Ashortperiodofoblivion,andhewaswanderingthroughatediousmazeoflow-archedrooms—solow,sometimes,thathemustcreepuponhishandsandkneestomakehiswayalong;itwascloseanddark,andeverywayheturned,someobstacleimpededhisprogress.Therewereinsects,too,hideouscrawlingthings,witheyesthatstareduponhim,andfilledtheveryairaround,glisteninghorriblyamidstthethickdarknessoftheplace.Thewallsandceilingwerealivewithreptiles—thevaultexpandedtoanenormoussize—frightfulfiguresflittedtoandfro—andthefacesofmenheknew,renderedhideousbygibingandmouthing,peeredoutfromamongthem;theyweresearinghimwithheatedirons,andbindinghisheadwithcordstillthebloodstarted;andhestruggledmadlyforlife.

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