Yes, the street was quite empty: except, ah! except, for that lurking figure, which, even as I espied it, shot round a distant angle of the wall, and was lost to sight.
"There!" I cried, reckless now who might hear me, "knock! knock louder! never mind the noise.

The alarm is given.

A score of people are watching us, and yonder spy has gone off to summon his friends." The truth was my anger was rising.

I could bear no longer the silent regards of all those eyes at the windows.

I writhed under them--cruel, pitiless eyes they were.