... one end of the room, she was opposed by a grim menacing eigure armed with a huge rod of birch. When she looked behinii her, she saw a si- milar figure at the other end of the roon, armed in the same manner. The terror, notwithstanding the strauige ci ...

... made a motion to his nephew to approach him, and quietly stretched forth his arms, as if to embrace him; when he found him near enough, he raised hisoself, and putting one arm round his neck, seized a knife with the other, which lie pitilessly phinged ...