Abou and I were alone with the two bodies.
"'What expect you, Abou ?' I said, anxiously.
"'If the labour of a lifetime has not been a failure,' he said, 'these two bodies will soon possess their spirits.'" Again Voltaire stopped in his recital, and looked around the room.

He saw that every eye was fixed upon him, while the faces of some of the young ladies were blanched with terror.

Evidently they were deeply moved.

Even some of the young men shuddered, not so much because of the story that was told, as the strange power of the man that told it.

As he saw these marks of interest, a smile crept over his face.