Excerpt: ...Varney's house, as quietly as it was possible for such an assemblage to proceed. Indeed, saving the sound of the footsteps, nothing could be heard of them at all; and that regular tramp, tramp, would have puzzled any one listening to it from any distance to know in which direction it was proceeding. In this way they went on until Sir Francis Varney's house was reached, and then a whispered word to halt was given, and all eyes were bent upon the building. From but one window out of the numerous ones with which ...
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Excerpt: ...Varney's house, as quietly as it was possible for such an assemblage to proceed. Indeed, saving the sound of the footsteps, nothing could be heard of them at all; and that regular tramp, tramp, would have puzzled any one listening to it from any distance to know in which direction it was proceeding. In this way they went on until Sir Francis Varney's house was reached, and then a whispered word to halt was given, and all eyes were bent upon the building. From but one window out of the numerous ones with which the front of the mansion was studded did there shine the least light, and from that there came rather an uncommonly bright reflection, probably arising from a reading lamp placed close to the window. A general impression, they knew not why exactly, seemed to pervade everybody, that in the room from whence streamed that bright light was Sir Francis Varney. "The vampyre's room!" said several. "The vampyre's room! That is it!" "Yes," said he who had a kind of moral control over his comrades; "I have no doubt but he is there." "What's to be done?" asked several. "Make no noise whatever, but stand aside, so as not to be seen from the door when it is opened." "Yes, yes." "I will knock for admittance, and, the moment it is answered, I will place this stick in such a manner within, that the door cannot be closed again. Upon my saying 'Advance, ' you will make a rush forward, and we shall have possession immediately of the house." All this was agreed to. The mob slunk close to the walls of the house, and out of immediate observation from the hall door, or from any of the windows, and then the leader advanced, and knocked loudly for admission. The silence was now of the most complete character that could be imagined. Those who came there so bent upon vengeance were thoroughly convinced of the necessity of extreme caution, to save themselves even yet from being completely foiled. They had abundant faith, from experience, of the resources in the way of...
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