1 Let me see to your comfort myself.
2 For myself, I felt a sort of paralysis of fear.
3 I came back to my room and threw myself on my knees.
4 I myself am of an old family, and to live in a new house would kill me.
5 Regaining my room, I threw myself panting upon the bed and tried to think.
6 In starting I had cut myself slightly, but did not notice it at the moment.
7 I was now myself looking out for the conveyance which was to take me to the Count.
8 I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but could not arrive at any unquestionable result.
9 So far as I can see, my only plan will be to keep my knowledge and my fears to myself, and my eyes open.
10 I felt no compunction in doing so, for under the circumstances I felt that I should protect myself in every way I could.
11 Here was an opportunity which I might not have again, so I exerted myself, and with many efforts forced it back so that I could enter.
12 I slept till just before the dawn, and when I woke threw myself on my knees, for I determined that if Death came he should find me ready.
13 At last I pulled open a heavy door which stood ajar, and found myself in an old, ruined chapel, which had evidently been used as a graveyard.
14 When I had dressed myself I went into the room where we had supped, and found a cold breakfast laid out, with coffee kept hot by the pot being placed on the hearth.
15 I felt myself struggling to awake to some call of my instincts; nay, my very soul was struggling, and my half-remembered sensibilities were striving to answer the call.
16 I drew a great couch out of its place near the corner, so that as I lay, I could look at the lovely view to east and south, and unthinking of and uncaring for the dust, composed myself for sleep.
17 It all seemed like a horrible nightmare to me, and I expected that I should suddenly awake, and find myself at home, with the dawn struggling in through the windows, as I had now and again felt in the morning after a day of overwork.
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