1 He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.
2 They all four lay helpless on the floor, breathing heavily.
3 By her side lay Lucy, with face white and still more drawn.
4 I looked at her throat just now as she lay asleep, and the tiny wounds seem not to have healed.
5 As she lay there in my arms, and I in hers, the flapping and buffeting came to the window again.
6 Lucy lay motionless, and did not seem to have strength to speak, so for a while we were all silent.
7 There on the bed, seemingly in a swoon, lay poor Lucy, more horribly white and wan-looking than ever.
8 So, on her renewing her promise to call me if she should want anything, I lay on the sofa, and forgot all about everything.
9 I called to them, and they came in, and when they saw what had happened, and what it was that lay over me on the bed, they screamed out.
10 From the windows I could see that the suite of rooms lay along to the south of the castle, the windows of the end room looking out both west and south.
11 Before us lay a green sloping land full of forests and woods, with here and there steep hills, crowned with clumps of trees or with farmhouses, the blank gable end to the road.
12 I drew a great couch out of its place near the corner, so that as I lay, I could look at the lovely view to east and south, and unthinking of and uncaring for the dust, composed myself for sleep.
13 The latter lay farthest in, and she was covered with a white sheet, the edge of which had been blown back by the draught through the broken window, showing the drawn, white face, with a look of terror fixed upon it.
14 Between her and the port lay the great flat reef on which so many good ships have from time to time suffered, and, with the wind blowing from its present quarter, it would be quite impossible that she should fetch the entrance of the harbour.
15 The windows were curtainless, and the yellow moonlight, flooding in through the diamond panes, enabled one to see even colours, whilst it softened the wealth of dust which lay over all and disguised in some measure the ravages of time and the moth.
16 I feared she might catch cold sitting there, and asked her to come in and sleep with me, so she came into bed, and lay down beside me; she did not take off her dressing gown, for she said she would only stay a while and then go back to her own bed.
17 There lay the Count, but looking as if his youth had been half renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey; the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck.
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