1 When I got to the doorway at the top of the stairs I found it closed.
2 The sun was almost down on the mountain tops, and the shadows of the whole group fell long upon the snow.
3 Taking his field-glasses from the case, he stood on the top of the rock, and began to search the horizon.
4 At last, however, I found one door at the top of the stairway which, though it seemed to be locked, gave a little under pressure.
5 For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed; the chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin.
6 Looking fixedly at her, he commenced to make passes in front of her, from over the top of her head downward, with each hand in turn.
7 We were coming home for dinner, and had come to the top of the steps up from the West Pier and stopped to look at the view, as we generally do.
8 When I got almost to the top I could see the seat and the white figure, for I was now close enough to distinguish it even through the spells of shadow.
9 Arthur bent and kissed her, and then we sent him and Quincey out of the tomb; the Professor and I sawed the top off the stake, leaving the point of it in the body.
10 It was strange to see the snow falling in such heavy flakes close to us, and beyond, the sun shining more and more brightly as it sank down towards the far mountain tops.
11 Outside the house came the sound of a pistol-shot; the glass of the window was shattered with a bullet, which, ricochetting from the top of the embrasure, struck the far wall of the room.
12 But all was indeed changed; the frowning mountains seemed further away, and we were near the top of a steep-rising hill, on summit of which was such a castle as Jonathan tell of in his diary.
13 When the sun grew so high this morning that it struck the top of the great gateway opposite my window, the high spot which it touched seemed to me as if the dove from the ark had lighted there.
14 It got thicker and thicker, till it seemed as if it became concentrated into a sort of pillar of cloud in the room, through the top of which I could see the light of the gas shining like a red eye.
15 Strangely enough those pursued did not seem to realise, or at least to care, that they were pursued; they seemed, however, to hasten with redoubled speed as the sun dropped lower and lower on the mountain tops.
16 Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side of them to be subject to great floods.
17 This was startling, and, coming on the top of so many strange things, was beginning to increase that vague feeling of uneasiness which I always have when the Count is near; but at the instant I saw that the cut had bled a little, and the blood was trickling over my chin.
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