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dead boy’s love for Nicholas, and the attachment of Nicholas to
him, was insupportable agony. The picture of his deathbed, with
Nicholas at his side, tending and supporting him, and he breathing
out his thanks, and expiring in his arms, when he would have had
them mortal enemies and hating each other to the last, drove him
frantic. He gnashed his teeth and smote the air, and looking wildly
round, with eyes which gleamed through the darkness, cried
aloud:

‘I am trampled down and ruined. The wretch told me true. The
night has come! Is there no way to rob them of further triumph,
and spurn their mercy and compassion? Is there no devil to help
me?’

Swiftly, there glided again into his brain the figure he had
raised that night. It seemed to lie before him. The head was
covered now. So it was when he first saw it. The rigid, upturned,
marble feet too, he remembered well. Then came before him the
pale and trembling relatives who had told their tale upon the
inquest--the shrieks of women--the silent dread of men--the
consternation and disquiet--the victory achieved by that heap of
clay, which, with one motion of its hand, had let out the life and
made this stir among them--

He spoke no more; but, after a pause, softly groped his way out
of the room, and up the echoing stairs--up to the top--to the front
garret--where he closed the door behind him, and remained.

It was a mere lumber-room now, but it yet contained an old
dismantled bedstead; the one on which his son had slept; for no
other had ever been there. He avoided it hastily, and sat down as
far from it as he could.

The weakened glare of the lights in the street below, shining


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