One visitor had come: at any moment another might follow and be more obstinate.

To have done the deed, and yet not to reap the profit, would be too abhorrent a failure.

The money, that was now Markheim's concern; and as a means to that, the keys.
He glanced over his shoulder at the open door, where the shadow was still lingering and shivering; and with no conscious repugnance of the mind, yet with a tremor of the belly, he drew near the body of his victim.

The human character had quite departed.

Like a suit half-stuffed with bran, the limbs lay scattered, the trunk doubled, on the floor; and yet the thing repelled him.