11. Having double-locked the door, he came to me with a mysterious air.
12. By way of answer he took a red copy-book from under his jacket.
13. How gladly I would have fallen upon his neck, had I dared!
14. The first four lines only were done so far.
15. The rest, which he said was but a matter of time, he was never able to manage.
16. Do what he would, the poet never got farther than these four lines.
V (pp. 21—25)
1. Let us talk of something else, if you have no objection.
2. Such was that scene, the horror of which I shall never forget.
3. If I pass over in silence this portion of my life, the reader will lose nothing by not knowing it.