"The stranger pushed the door open, walked in without further ceremony, closed it behind him, and said, in a low, distinct voice: "'Could you take the portrait of a dead man?' "'Of a dead man?'

The silence within; the raving of the wind and rain without; the solemn mystery of death, and the still more solemn mystery of crime which, as I followed out train after train of wild conjectures, grew to still deeper conviction, had each and all their own gloomy fascination.

"At length, when many hours had gone by, and I began to be conscious of the first languor of sleeplessness, I heard, or fancied I heard, a light sound in the corridor without.

In this portrait you give me the only treasurethe only consolation of my future life!' "So saying, she took a ring from her finger, pressed it, without another word, into my unwilling hand; and, with the same passive dreary look that her face had worn on first entering took up her lamp again, and glided from the room.

And this time my voice was hoarse enough, without any need of feigning.

She gave her hand to Dalrymple without speaking; then knelt down at the communion-table, and so remained till we had all taken our places.

And with this, I told him the whole story from beginning to end, confessing all my follies without reservation.

"'Don't see him here,' said I, without lyin'.

Without rising, the President glanced at the card.

In the Tennessee mountains a mountaineer preacher, who had declared colleges "the works of the devil," was preaching without previous meditation an inspirational sermon from the text, "The voice of the turtle shall be heard in the land."

" If you favor war, dig a trench in your backyard, fill it half full of water, crawl into it, and stay there for a day or two without anything to eat, get a lunatic to shoot at you with a brace of revolvers and a machine gun, and you will have something just as good, and you will save your country a great deal of expense.

There is living in Illinois a solemn man who is often funny without meaning to be.

I dare to say, he has not landed without a sample of his wares?" "Custom and friendships!"

" Alida could not object to this liberality, though she was not without a secret opinion that the gifts were no more than delicate and well-concealed offerings to herself.

If goods have entered the Province, without license, why, they must be found and condemned; and if free-traders are on the coast, they should be caught.

"Here is a brazen-looking hussy and one who might rob the Queen's treasury, itself, without remorse!

" "The over-driven ship plows the seas too deep for speed; we shall get into port, in better season without this haste.

I can make allowances for some errors in an account; but women can be exported and imported without duty, and when and where one pleases, and therefore the less necessity for running them out of their old uncle's habitation, in so secret a manner.

Do the authorities usually give credit to these charges, without some evidence of their truth?" "Is it denied?"

Although apprehension of some indiscreet exposure was certainly the feeling uppermost in his mind, he was not entirely without some of the weakness which caused Oloff Van Staats to listen and to gaze with so much obvious interest and secret awe.

" "Twould give grave offence to leave the lady, without knowing all she has to say.

The brigantine had run up her boat, and she now lay, as when first seen, a motionless, beautiful, and exquisitely graceful fabric, without the smallest sign about her of an intention to move, or indeed without exhibiting any other proof, except in her admirable order and symmetry, that any of human powers dwelt within her hull.

The brigantine had run up her boat, and she now lay, as when first seen, a motionless, beautiful, and exquisitely graceful fabric, without the smallest sign about her of an intention to move, or indeed without exhibiting any other proof, except in her admirable order and symmetry, that any of human powers dwelt within her hull.

Be careful, that nothing strikes her, without an order.

While on this subject, it may be proper to add that, in course of time, the Stately Pine reached the capes of North Carolina, in safety; and that, having effected her passage over Edenton bar, without striking, she ascended the river to the point of her destination.