It's enough to wake the dead." "Ain't nobody BUT the dead to wake in this place." "Yes, there is; there's that young man of yours, that Brown one.

He ain't dead, is he ?" "Humph! he's asleep, and that's next door to dead--with him." "Well, I'm glad of it.

My nerves are pretty steady as a general thing, but I declare I'm all of a twitter to-night--and no wonder.

It's darker than a pocket in here.

Can't we have a light ?" Atkins stumbled across the stone floor and took the lantern from the hook by the stairs.