With one effort, I could have hurled him into the street beneath.
It would have been rare sport to have done it; but my secret was at stake, and I let him go.

A few days after, they told me I must place her under some restraint: I must provide a keeper for her.

I! I went into the open fields where none could hear me, and laughed till the air resounded with my shouts! 'She died next day.

The white-headed old man followed her to the grave, and the proud brothers dropped a tear over the insensible corpse of her whose sufferings they had regarded in her lifetime with muscles of iron.
All this was food for my secret mirth, and I laughed behind the white handkerchief which I held up to my face, as we rode home, till the tears Came into my eyes.
'But though I had carried my object and killed her, I was restless and disturbed, and I felt that before long my secret must be known.

I could not hide the wild mirth and joy which boiled within me, and made me when I was alone, at home, jump up and beat my hands together, and dance round and round, and roar aloud.