[The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookThe Cloister and the Hearth CHAPTER X 10/27
"I have found him.
He is in the haunted tower, right at the top of it.
Ay, I know the place: many a poor fellow has gone up there straight, and come down feet foremost." He then told them how he had looked up and seen Gerard's face at a window that was like a slit in the wall. "Oh, Martin! how did he look ?" "What mean you? He looked like Gerard Eliassoen." "But was he pale ?" "A little." "Looked he anxious? Looked he like one doomed ?" "Nay, nay; as bright as a pewter pot." "You mock me.
Stay! then that must have been at sight of you.
He counts on us.
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