1 Finding the door open, I entered.
2 The poor that stopped at their door were never driven away.
3 My hand was already on the lock of the door before I recollected myself.
4 At that instant the cottage door was opened, and Felix, Safie, and Agatha entered.
5 The thatch had fallen in, the walls were unplastered, and the door was off its hinges.
6 The fresh air revived me, and with renewed determination I approached the door of their cottage.
7 The next morning, at daybreak, I summoned sufficient courage and unlocked the door of my laboratory.
8 In a few minutes after, I heard the creaking of my door, as if some one endeavoured to open it softly.
9 Felix replied in a cheerful accent, and the old man was recommencing his music when someone tapped at the door.
10 Presently I heard the sound of footsteps along the passage; the door opened, and the wretch whom I dreaded appeared.
11 One of the best of these I entered, but I had hardly placed my foot within the door before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted.
12 I left the room, and locking the door, made a solemn vow in my own heart never to resume my labours; and then, with trembling steps, I sought my own apartment.
13 I threw the door forcibly open, as children are accustomed to do when they expect a spectre to stand in waiting for them on the other side; but nothing appeared.
14 I remember, the first time that I did this, the young woman, when she opened the door in the morning, appeared greatly astonished on seeing a great pile of wood on the outside.
15 As it drew nearer I observed that it was the Swiss diligence; it stopped just where I was standing, and on the door being opened, I perceived Henry Clerval, who, on seeing me, instantly sprung out.
16 The girl met him at the door, helped to relieve him of his burden, and taking some of the fuel into the cottage, placed it on the fire; then she and the youth went apart into a nook of the cottage, and he showed her a large loaf and a piece of cheese.
17 As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump.
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