Perhaps he will be calmer, if he does not see you." She retired out of the man's sight.

He opened his eyes after a few seconds, and looked anxiously round.
'"Is she gone ?" he eagerly inquired.
'"Yes--yes," said I; "she shall not hurt you." '"I'll tell you what, Jem," said the man, in a low voice, "she does hurt me.

There's something in her eyes wakes such a dreadful fear in my heart, that it drives me mad.

All last night, her large, staring eyes and pale face were close to mine; wherever I turned, they turned; and whenever I started up from my sleep, she was at the bedside looking at me." He drew me closer to him, as he said in a deep alarmed whisper, "Jem, she must be an evil spirit--a devil! Hush! I know she is.

If she had been a woman she would have died long ago.