Upon the least dubiety, I will take action.' He snuffed, looking critically at the tortured man.

'And now let me remind you that your chaise is at the door.

This interview is agitating to his lordship--it cannot be agreeable for you--and I suggest that it need not be further drawn out.

It does not enter into the views of your uncle, the Count, that you should again sleep under this roof.' As Alain turned and passed without a word or a sign from the apartment, I instantly followed.

I suppose I must be at bottom possessed of some humanity; at least, this accumulated torture, this slow butchery of a man as by quarters of rock, had wholly changed my sympathies.