And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me -- filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating "'Tis some visiter entreating entrance at my
chamber door -- Some late visiter entreating entrance at my
chamber door; -- This it is, and nothing more."
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me--filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating "'Tis some visiter entreating entrance at my
chamber door-- Some late visiter entreating entrance at my
chamber door; This it is and nothing more."
My only thought was to place as much distance as possible between me and that frightful
chamber of torture.
When I entered my
chamber I did not notice anything unusual there.
"Yes; release me and I will give you entrance to the other horror
chamber, if you wish.
Ghek, mounted upon his rykor, paced the floor of the tower
chamber in which he had been ordered to remain.
She led him back to the
chamber beneath the altar room.
As they spied me there was a concerted rush by those nearest the entrance where we stood, but a line of radium bulbs inset along the threshold of their
chamber brought them to a sudden halt--evidently they dared not cross that line of light.
This Tartarus was called simply, The Question
Chamber.
He therefore -- as being in possession of the key, he might enter Rosa's
chamber whenever he liked -- thought it better to wait and to take it either an hour before or after opening, and to start on the instant to Haarlem, where the tulip would be before the judges of the committee before any one else could put in a reclamation.
Then a door opened at the far side of the
chamber and a strange, dried up, little mummy of a man came toward me.
This history must henceforth accommodate itself to the change which Roxana has consummated, and call the real heir "
Chambers" and the usurping little slave, "Thomas `a Becket"--shortening this latter name to "Tom," for daily use, as the people about him did.