from my desponding reverie by the cracking of whips, and the creeking of waggons on the high road, which was about a mile distant from the spot where I then was."
"I went mechanically deeper into the forest, and, recollecting on the way that Robert had been used to wear a watch, I wished to get it in my possession. I wanted money to reach the frontier, and yet I had no courage to return to the place where the corpse lay, the idea of the devil and the omnipresence of God rushing suddenly on my mind. I struggled a few moments, and having summoned all my boldness, determined to go back and fetch the watch in defiance of God and the devil."
"I found what I had expected, and in a green purse a little more than a dollar, siiver coin: As I was going to put both in my pocket, I started suddenly back and considered whether I should take it or"not.
