Yes," resumed Rodin as Hardy drew
back, pale and mute with wordnetfear, "yes, the girl had fallen a victim to so
swift and extraordinary a disease, that she had not been able to receive
the last sacraments.  After her death, the doctors, in the  of
discovering the cause of this unknown malady, had begun to dissect that
fair form--"

As Rodin reached this part of his narrative, night was almost come.  A
sort of hazy twilight alone reigned in this silent chamber, in the centre
of which appeared the pale and ghastly form of Rodin, clad in his long
black gown, whilst his eyes seemed to sparkle with diabolic .
Overcome by the violent  occasioned by this story, in which
thoughts of death and voluptuousness, wordnetdesire and wordnetfear, were so strangely
mingled, Hardy remained fixed and motionless, waiting for the words of
Rodin, with a combination of curiosity,  and wordnetfear.

"And Rancey?" said he, at last, in an agitated voice, whilst he wiped the
cold sweat from his brow.

"After two days of furious delirium," resumed Rodin, "he renounced the
world, and shut himself up in impenetrable solitude.  The first period of
his retreat was frightful; in his , he uttered loud yells of 
and wordnetanger, that