At one end of the room was what appeared to be a curtained alcove, the heavy
hangings of which completely hid the interior.
He threw his left arm about the girl and with bared sword stood between her and the
hangings that they watched, and then slowly Gahan of Gathol backed away, for in this grim and somber chamber, which no human foot had trod for five thousand years and to which no breath of wind might enter, the heavy
hangings in the far corner had moved.
"Will you make affidavit," demanded he, in the tone of a country justice taking an examination, "that old Squire Higginbotham of Kimballton was murdered in his orchard the night before last, and found
hanging on his great pear-tree yesterday morning?"
The next morning the whole town of Nottingham was early astir, and as soon as the gates were open country-folk began to pour in; for a triple
hanging was not held there every day in the week, and the bustle almost equated a Fair day.
Yesterday, when I stepped across to dine with you, the whole crew were
hanging out of the window to watch me, and the landlady exclaimed that the devil was in young people, and called you certain unbecoming names.
"The brothers De Witt are murdered!" Cornelius muttered, with the cold sweat on his brow, and sank on his bed, his arms
hanging by his side, and his eyes closed.
Within the next mile we counted six more
hanging forms by the blaze of the lightning, and altogether it was a grisly excursion.
The stranger kept
hanging about just inside the inn door, peering round the corner like a cat waiting for a mouse.
Sancho kept spitting from time to time, and his spittle seemed somewhat ropy and dry, observing which the compassionate squire of the Grove said, "It seems to me that with all this talk of ours our tongues are sticking to the roofs of our mouths; but I have a pretty good loosener
hanging from the saddle-bow of my horse," and getting up he came back the next minute with a large bota of wine and a pasty half a yard across; and this is no exaggeration, for it was made of a house rabbit so big that Sancho, as he handled it, took it to be made of a goat, not to say a kid, and looking at it he said, "And do you carry this with you, senor?"
The pictures on the starboard side, from being no longer vertical, were clinging to the paper, whilst those of the port side were
hanging at least a foot from the wall.
'heir,' who standing on the runners was
hanging on at the back of the sledge.
There were some that believed he would be President, yet, if he escaped
hanging.
