1 Lucy turned her head and looked at us, but said nothing.
2 The fair girl shook her head coquettishly, and the other two urged her on.
3 When I asked her how she came to be at the window she shook her head and turned away.
4 There distinctly was Lucy with her head lying up against the side of the window-sill and her eyes shut.
5 But as I did so the head turned, and the eyes fell full upon me, with all their blaze of basilisk horror.
6 Lower and lower went her head as the lips went below the range of my mouth and chin and seemed about to fasten on my throat.
7 Sister Agatha, who is a good creature and a born nurse, tells me that he raved of dreadful things whilst he was off his head.
8 The window blind blew back with the wind that rushed in, and in the aperture of the broken panes there was the head of a great, gaunt grey wolf.
9 The driver, however, was not in the least disturbed; he kept turning his head to left and right, but I could not see anything through the darkness.
10 I have had a great shock, and when I try to think of what it is I feel my head spin round, and I do not know if it was all real or the dreaming of a madman.
11 Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
12 When I came in view again the cloud had passed, and the moonlight struck so brilliantly that I could see Lucy half reclining with her head lying over the back of the seat.
13 Then he broke off and asked if I could love him in time; and when I shook my head his hands trembled, and then with some hesitation he asked me if I cared already for any one else.
14 The searchlight followed her, and a shudder ran through all who saw her, for lashed to the helm was a corpse, with drooping head, which swung horribly to and fro at each motion of the ship.
15 All at once that shifty look came into his eyes which we always see when a madman has seized an idea, and with it the shifty movement of the head and back which asylum attendants come to know so well.
16 With joy I hurried to the window, and saw drive into the yard two great leiter-wagons, each drawn by eight sturdy horses, and at the head of each pair a Slovak, with his wide hat, great nail-studded belt, dirty sheepskin, and high boots.
17 He raised his hands over his head in a sort of mute despair, and then beat his palms together in a helpless way; finally he sat down on a chair, and putting his hands before his face, began to sob, with loud, dry sobs that seemed to come from the very racking of his heart.
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