It proved otherwise, however; for I never slept more soundly in my life, and only awoke when, at morning dawn, my landlord shook me by the shoulder, and dispelled some dream, of which, fortunately for you, I have no recollection, otherwise you would have been favoured with it, in hopes you might have proved a second Daniel upon the occasion.
'You sleep sound--' said his full deep voice; 'ere five years have rolled over your head, your slumbers will be lighter--unless ere then you are wrapped in the sleep which is never broken.' 'How!' said I, starting up in the bed; 'do you know anything of me--of my prospects--of my views in life ?' 'Nothing,' he answered, with a grim smile; 'but it is evident you are entering upon the world young, inexperienced, and full of hopes, and I do but prophesy to you what I would to any one in your condition.

But come; there lie your clothes--a brown crust and a draught of milk wait you, if you choose to break your fast; but you must make haste.' 'I must first,' I said, 'take the freedom to spend a few minutes alone, before beginning the ordinary works of the day.' 'Oh!--umph!--I cry your devotions pardon,' he replied, and left the apartment.
Alan, there is something terrible about this man.
I joined him, as I had promised, in the kitchen where we had supped overnight, where I found the articles which he had offered me for breakfast, without butter or any other addition.
He walked up and down while I partook of the bread and milk; and the slow measured weighty step seemed identified with those which I had heard last night.

His pace, from its funereal slowness, seemed to keep time with some current of internal passion, dark, slow, and unchanged.
'We run and leap by the side of a lively and bubbling brook,' thought I, internally, 'as if we would run a race with it; but beside waters deep, slow, and lonely, our pace is sullen and silent as their course.

What thoughts may be now corresponding with that furrowed brow, and bearing time with that heavy step ?' 'If you have finished,' said he, looking up to me with a glance of impatience, as he observed that I ate no longer, but remained with my eyes fixed upon him, 'I wait to show you the way.' We went out together, no individual of the family having been visible excepting my landlord.

I was disappointed of the opportunity which I watched for of giving some gratuity to the domestics, as they seemed to be.