The Magician (Volume 1)
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ISBN10: 1458902641
ISBN13: 9781458902641
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.33 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781458902641
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.33 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The student stood gazing for some time after his friend, till his form had disappeared in the darkness, and the echo of his tread died away. He then tightened his leathern belt, drew his gown more closely round him, pulled the tattered cowl over his brow, and crossing his arms upon his bosom, walked slowly homeward, like a man plunged in the deepest meditation. The great city slept. The night wind sighed along the streets, as if they had been ruins; and the river answered with its stilly voice, to the sound. It was the hour when spirits were supposed to be permitted to walk the earth; and when the noises of winds and waters were easily syllabled into their mystic speech, by the imaginations of men. David, however, seemed either free from the superstition of the time, or his preoccupied mind afforded no room for its fantastic creations. He walked slowly on, without raising his eyes from the ground, till he had almost reached the Scottish College; he then turned suddenly into a lane to the right; his footsteps became both swifter and lighter; and if his dark figure had been seen gliding thus quickly and noiselessly through the gloom, he might have been taken himself for one of the supernatural beings who haunt the night. From one long and tortuous lane, he glided into another, till it might have seemed that he was walking for exercise, or for the purpose of counting every turning and winding on the peopled hill of Saint G6nevieve. At length he stopped before a mean and ruinous-looking house, in the darkest part of a dirty and almost deserted street. This, apparently, was his destination. After looking round for a moment, as if to make sure that he was not observed, he plunged into a miserable gateway, the door of which, unnecessary as it seemed to the poverty ...