The Mysterious Hand, Or, Subterranean Horrours! : a Romance 3
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Alas! his cries, bis shrieks are uttered in the grave. THE MYSTERIOUS HAND. 181 grave. No mortal hears him. He exerts his strength — he lifts the lid of his coffin — he shakes the earth above, but already suf- focation seizes him. No human force can raise the ponderous and smothering en- cumbrance. He falls back into — his cof- fin — he groans, and dies. So Julia, with a vague and undefined conception of some monstrous perils, feared to look, she knew not why, and dreaded to think, she knew not... wherefore. The events of the night before passed like the fleeting images of a delirious dream through her disordered mind, and it was some time before she could summon courage enough to open her eyes. She thought, and she shuddered as she thought, that she was immured with Aminta, for ever, in the sepulchre. At length she. ventured to steal a look. She was alone, and, oh blissful circum.sfance ! ^ •' in 182 THE MYSTERIOUS FIANS. in her own room. She was in bed, though not undressed. She tried to recall her scattered thoughts, and in the court-yard, beneath her loop-hole windows, she heard the uncouth voices of the outlaws.
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