Saksagan

“`Upon this, I looked around—-and there she was! There at my shoulder, almost touching me with her clothes, gazing at me with her horrible little eyes, displaying the gloomy cavern of her mouth, fanning...

“ `For my part, I tried to believe that it was so. I even came to believe it at the end of several months. Still, I would have given years, of my life to...

“`A few moments later I was in my room; I always carried my latchkey, so as not to have to disturb my good Jose. Nevertheless, he was waiting for me that night. My misfortunes...

“ `This reasoning gone through with, I made an extraordinary effort and turned my head. Ah, Gabriel!—Gabriel! how fearful it was! The tall woman had followed me with silent tread, was right over me,...

`“I did not dash away in a run when I saw my lif`s sphinx. I restrained my impulse to do so, less out of shame and manly pride than out of fear lest my...

“`The very terror or delirium of fear which instantly overcame me gave me somehow a most acute perception, so that I could distinguish at a glance, in the two seconds it took me to...

Nevertheless, the pitiable scene would be gone over again as often as a similar thing occurred—and remember that I was twenty-four years old, that I had experienced a great many adventures by night, and...

`“Go on,` I replied, sitting down. The fact was, I almost repented having entered the house as I saw the expression of abject fear on my, friend`s fee.`“Listen, then`, said he, wiping the perspiration...

“As you know, it turned out that she died suddenly at the baths of Santa Agueda, at the end of the summer of 1859. I was in Pau when I received the sad news...

This took place in 1875. It was the height of the summer. I do not remember whether it was Saint James`s day or Saint Louis`s ; I am inclined to think it was Saint...