1 In the moonlight opposite me were three young women, ladies by their dress and manner.
2 Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great whirling circles.
3 Just then, the moonlight crept round an angle of the building, and the light fell on the window.
4 All at once the wolves began to howl as though the moonlight had had some peculiar effect on them.
5 The soft moonlight soothed, and the wide expanse without gave a sense of freedom which refreshed me.
6 Then I began to notice that there were some quaint little specks floating in the rays of the moonlight.
7 I fled, and felt somewhat safer in my own room, where there was no moonlight and where the lamp was burning brightly.
8 The night was dark with occasional gleams of moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across the sky.
9 I thought it was some trick of the moonlight, some weird effect of shadow; but I kept looking, and it could be no delusion.
10 Louder it seemed to ring in my ears, and the floating motes of dust to take new shapes to the sound as they danced in the moonlight.
11 I thought at the time that I must be dreaming when I saw them, for, though the moonlight was behind them, they threw no shadow on the floor.
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 They simply seemed to fade into the rays of the moonlight and pass out through the window, for I could see outside the dim, shadowy forms for a moment before they entirely faded away.
14 My lamp seemed to be of little effect in the brilliant moonlight, but I was glad to have it with me, for there was a dread loneliness in the place which chilled my heart and made my nerves tremble.
15 The room was the same, unchanged in any way since I came into it; I could see along the floor, in the brilliant moonlight, my own footsteps marked where I had disturbed the long accumulation of dust.
16 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.
17 There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal, till I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth.
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