Oh, I wouldn't turn out your dog such a night as this." "Out, out, you devil!" "Oh, William, only one--" "Out, you Jezebel, before I do you a mischief." He had got the heavy door open, and she passed out, moaning low to herself.

Out into the fierce rain and the black darkness; and the old man held open the door for a minute, to see if she were gone.
No.

A broad, flickering riband of light ineffable wavered for an instant of time before his eyes, lighting up the country far and wide; but plainly visible between him and the blaze was a tall, dark, bare-headed woman, wildly raising her hands above her head, as if imploring vengeance upon him, and, ere the terrible explosion which followed had ceased to shake the old house to its foundations, he shut the door, and went muttering alone up to his solitary chamber.
The next morning the groom came into the lawyer's room, and informed him that when he went to call his master in the morning, he had found the bed untouched, and Hawker sitting half undressed in his arm-chair, dead and cold..