They say I had been standing straight up in my place for the last two minutes.
XXX "CHOOSE" Let me have A dram of poison; such soon speeding geer As will disperse itself through all the veins, That the life-weary taker may fall dead.
Come, bitter conduct, come unsavoury guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark.
_Romeo and Juliet_ "I have not finished," were the first words we heard, when order was restored, and we were all in a condition to listen again.
"I had to relate what you have just heard, that you might understand what happened next.

I was not used to pain, and I could never have kept on pressing those irons to my cheek if I had not had the strength given me by my own reflection in the glass.

When I thought the burn was quite deep enough, I tore the tongs away, and was lifting them to the other cheek when I saw the door behind me open, inch by inch, as thought pushed by hesitating touches.
"Instantly, I forgot my pain, almost my purpose, watching that door.

I saw it slowly swing to its full width, and disclose my sister standing in the gap, with a look and in an attitude which terrified me more than the fire had done.

Dropping the tongs, I turned and faced her, covering my cheek instinctively with my hand.
"I saw her eyes run over my elaborate dinner dress--my little hand-bag, and the candle burning in a room made warm with a fire on the hearth.
This, before she spoke a single word.