It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

Enter freely and of your own free will!

You yourself never loved; you never love! Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?

But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.