I will pay my debts one day.

In the meantime your duty is done.

Depart, both of you, I command you!" Outside the thunder began to growl in the distance.

An extraordinary feeling of oppression had slowly filled the air.

The lamps, swinging on the pavilion roof tree, flickered and flared, alternately rising and sinking like the life in the eyes of a dying man.
All the while the lady sat still on the couch, with an expression of amused contempt on her face.