And, in this connection, I may say, that, when he went out in the streets or ventured to show himself in public, he wore a pasteboard nose, with a mustache attached to it, instead of his own horrible hole of a nose.

This did not quite take away his corpse-like air, but it made him almost, I say almost, endurable to look at.
I therefore watched on the bank of the lake and, weary of long waiting, was beginning to think that he had gone through the other door, the door in the third cellar, when I heard a slight splashing in the dark, I saw the two yellow eyes shining like candles and soon the boat touched shore.

Erik jumped out and walked up to me: "You've been here for twenty-four hours," he said, "and you're annoying me.

I tell you, all this will end very badly.

And you will have brought it upon yourself; for I have been extraordinarily patient with you.