It is melancholy outside and in.

The baronet is in a black reaction after the excitements of the night.

I am conscious myself of a weight at my heart and a feeling of impending danger--ever present danger, which is the more terrible because I am unable to define it.
And have I not cause for such a feeling?
Consider the long sequence of incidents which have all pointed to some sinister influence which is at work around us.

There is the death of the last occupant of the Hall, fulfilling so exactly the conditions of the family legend, and there are the repeated reports from peasants of the appearance of a strange creature upon the moor.
Twice I have with my own ears heard the sound which resembled the distant baying of a hound.

It is incredible, impossible, that it should really be outside the ordinary laws of nature.