Now he personates a human form: then he was invironed with the lustre of heaven .-- "Clara," he continued, advancing closer to me, "thy death must come.
This minister is evil, but he from whom his commission was received is God.

Submit then with all thy wonted resignation to a decree that cannot be reversed or resisted.

Mark the clock.

Three minutes are allowed to thee, in which to call up thy fortitude, and prepare thee for thy doom." There he stopped.
Even now, when this scene exists only in memory, when life and all its functions have sunk into torpor, my pulse throbs, and my hairs uprise: my brows are knit, as then; and I gaze around me in distraction.

I was unconquerably averse to death; but death, imminent and full of agony as that which was threatened, was nothing.