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...rush of curious bystanders, the ropes which the officers of the Morgue let down to grapple it. Then it is put into the dead cart, while the frivolous crowd solemnly bare their heads; and at last it finds a resting place on a rugged couch behind the long, low window-and here we are on the other side of the window, gazing at it with a terrible feeling of sick fascination. Horrible! We turn away in unutterable disgust and with white lips seek the free air of Heaven once more...
...rugs. With my weakness for the creature comforts I remember the blazing open fire-place, sending out its wholesome warmth throughout the room. Matters were not so cheerful out-of-doors. It was a wintry night. The wind was roaring in great blasts down the chimney, and the black window panes every now and then grew suddenly white with gusts of driving snow. The house was in the country, I should think, for the only noises to be heard above the weather sounds and the crackling of the fire were the voices of two children who were playing...
Suddenly, chancing to look over towards one of the windows during an unusually sharp blast of the sleet outside, I saw a face peering through the pane. I could not jump,-for lack of salutatory machinery,-but a thrill went through me It was my own face. It was thrust stealthily forward out of the darkness into the light of the window,-and had a look of meanness and cruelty which I would put my eyes out rather than see again. The remembrance of that distorted likeness gives me, even now, a feeling of terror and shame...
...what they would do came over me. I tried to warn the people of the house. I could not move. Then I sought by an effort of the will to make my other self obey me. It only stood there, and leered at me. Then it left the window. Although I could not see it I was exquisitely conscious of what it was doing. It passed around by the side of the house, and gained an entrance. Then I heard it come creeping down the hall. It reached the room where the children and I were. I in the meantime...
...with looks of mockery and hate. Then the room suddenly filled with people. I recollect the chill of fear I felt as the instinct of self preservation rushed over my mind. Then with body and soul no longer separate, but united, I know not how, I dashed through the window, and plunging out into the darkness, fied to escape my crime...