AUTHOR OF “THE LIFE EVERLASTING” “THELMA” “HOLY ORDERS” “THE SORROWS OF SATAN” ETC. ETC. A wild night, with a gale of wind, a wind that scratched and tore and howled at doors and windows like an angry cat spitting and spluttering--its miauling voice now rising, now sinking--at one moment savage, at another querulous, but always incessant of complaint, with a threatening under snarl of restless rage in its tone. A wild night!--full of storm and quarrel, with occasional dashes of cold rain sweeping down on the shrieking blast like gusts of angry tears--a noisy night in which the elements were at open war with themselves, making no secret of their hostile intentions--and yet it was the one nig…
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