One looked to behold
inhabitants suited to such a town, glittering in icy garments, with
the motionless features, cold, sparkling eyes, and just sensation
enough in their frozen hearts to shiver at each other's presence.
By this fantastic piece of description, and more in the same style,
I intended to throw a ghostly glimmer round the reader, so that his
imagination might view the town through a medium that should take
off its every-day aspect, and make it a proper theatre for so wild a
scene as the final one. Amid this unearthly show, the wretched brother
and sister were represented as setting forth, at midnight, through the
gleaming streets, and directing their steps to a graveyard, where
all the dead had been laid, from the first corpse in that ancient
town, to the murdered man who was buried three days before. As they
went, they seemed to see the wizard gliding by their sides, or walking
dimly on the path before them. But here I paused, and gazed into the
faces of my two fair auditors, to judge whether, even on the hill
where so many had been brought to death by wilder tales than this, I
might venture to proceed.
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