Then, he dashes it down under the grate, with such force that the broken splinters fly out again in a shower; and he leaves the house.
When he first emerges into the night air, nothing around him is still or steady; nothing around him shows like what it is; he only knows that he stands with a bare head in the midst of a blood-red whirl, waiting to be struggled with, and to struggle to the death.
But, nothing happening, and the moon looking down upon him as if he were dead after a fit of wrath, he holds his steam-hammer beating head and heart, and staggers away.

Then, he becomes half-conscious of having heard himself bolted and barred out, like a dangerous animal; and thinks what shall he do?
Some wildly passionate ideas of the river dissolve under the spell of the moonlight on the Cathedral and the graves, and the remembrance of his sister, and the thought of what he owes to the good man who has but that very day won his confidence and given him his pledge.

He repairs to Minor Canon Corner, and knocks softly at the door.
It is Mr.Crisparkle's custom to sit up last of the early household, very softly touching his piano and practising his favourite parts in concerted vocal music.

The south wind that goes where it lists, by way of Minor Canon Corner on a still night, is not more subdued than Mr.Crisparkle at such times, regardful of the slumbers of the china shepherdess.
His knock is immediately answered by Mr.Crisparkle himself.

When he opens the door, candle in hand, his cheerful face falls, and disappointed amazement is in it.
'Mr.Neville! In this disorder! Where have you been ?' 'I have been to Mr.Jasper's, sir.