He tried
shortly after to muster up courage to look at the speaker, at the
congregation, and at Captain Kilpatrick's sweetheart in particular;
but the fiendish glances of the young man in the black clothes
were too appalling to be withstood--his eye caught them whether
he was looking that way or not: at length his courage was fairly
mastered, and he was obliged to look down during the remainder
of the service.
By night or by day it was the same. In the gallery of the
Parliament House, in the boxes of the play-house, in the church,
in the assembly, in the streets, suburbs, and the fields; and every
day, and every hour, from the first rencounter of the two, the
attendance became more and more constant, more inexplicable,
and altogether more alarming and insufferable, until at last
George was fairly driven from society, and forced to spend his
days in his and his father's lodgings with closed doors. Even
there, he was constantly harassed with the idea that, the next time
he lifted his eyes, he would to a certainty see that face, the most
repulsive to all his feelings of aught the earth contained. The
attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of
a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to
destruction; his approaches as undiscerned, and his looks as
fraught with hideous malignity.
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