The fact that his employer had desired him to return to the store as quickly as possible, was an all-sufficient reason for his unusual hurry to get away.
The moment the door closed upon him, his wife burst into tears.

On her bosom lay a most oppressive weight, and in her mind was a vague, troubled sense of approaching evil.

She felt that there was danger in the path of her husband; but of its nature she could divine little or nothing.

All day her dream had haunted her; and now it reproduced itself in her imagination with painful distinctness.

Vainly she strove to drive it from her thoughts; it would not be gone.