 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1873 - 348 Seiten
...-this he moves the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges without noise; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The...murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim... | |
 | Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - 524 Seiten
...chamber. Of this he moves the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges ; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The...murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given ! — and the victim... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1875 - 584 Seiten
...turns on its hinges without noise ; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room wiis uncommonly open to the admission of light. The face...murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given ! and the victim... | |
 | Joseph Banvard - 1875 - 362 Seiten
...it turns on its hinges without noise ; and he enters and beholds his victim before him ; the room is uncommonly open to the admission of light ; the face of the innocent sleeper is turned from the murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple,... | |
 | 1875 - 252 Seiten
...and beholds his victim before him. The room is uncommonly light. The face of the innocent sleeper is turned from the murderer ; and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his agod temple, show him' where to strike. The fatal blow is given, and the victim passes,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 380 Seiten
...chamber. Of this he moves the lock. by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges ; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room was uncommonly light. The face of the innocent sleeper was turned from the murderer; and the beams of the moon, resting... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 Seiten
...it turns on its hinges without noise ; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room is uncommonly open to the admission of light. The face of the innocent sleeper is turned from the murderer, and the beams of the Moon, resting on the grey locks of his aged temple,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1876 - 454 Seiten
...the door. On the words beholds hit victim, the hand is lowered, as if to point to the victim sleeping before him. The room was uncommonly open to the admission of light. On the words uncommonly open, the eye turns as if the speaker were inside the room and glancing up... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1877 - 478 Seiten
...it turns on its hinges without noise ; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room is uncommonly open to the admission of light. The face of the innocent sleeper is turned from the murderer, and the beams of the Moon, resting on the grey locks of his aged temple,... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1878 - 658 Seiten
...soft ami continued pressure, till it turns on its hingw without noise ; and he enters, and beholds Lw victim before him. The room was uncommonly open to...murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim... | |
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With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon; he winds up the ascent of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber. 
