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Chapter 4

The heat had been painfully oppressive all day, and it was now a close and sultry night.

My mother and sister had spoken so many last words, and it begged me to wait another

five minutes so many times that it was nearly midnight when the servant locked the garden

gate behind me.

I walked forward a few paces on the shortest way back to London, then stopped, and hesitated.

The moon was full and broad in the dark blue starless sky, and the broken ground of the

heat looked wild enough in the mysterious light to be hundreds of miles away from the

great city that lay beneath it.

The idea of descending any sooner than I could help into the heat and gloom of London

repelled me.

The prospect of going to bed in my airless chambers, and the prospect of gradual suffocation,

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