20/22 It is moving--moving--moving out_...." before he became unconscious. Absolutely nothing under the young gentleman's foot. Miss Smellie appeared to think the seizure a judgment upon an impudent and deceitful boy who stole into his elders' rooms in their absence and looked at their books. He said that he had hidden the fearful fact for all these years within his guilty bosom and that now it had emerged and convicted him. He lived in subconscious terror of the Snake, and in its presence--nay even in that of its counterfeit presentment--he was a gibbering, lunatic coward. |