← He sat crouched forward, with his elbows squared on the table, and his head just above the level of his hands, staring up at the devil. 🔊
← "They stared at me, I can tell you. 🔊
← Again he looked up his name, stared at the three little pasted slips he had known so well. 🔊
← But I wondered why—and now I guessed with a cold throb just why—he stared so past me. 🔊
← I stood staring all ways, up the street, across it, down it. 🔊
← The fact that people are going to stare at him and follow him around and seem afraid of him, can be explained only on the hypothesis that they will somehow have been prepared for his ghostly visitation. 🔊
← And my shame was the deeper and hotter because he, if you please, stared straight at me with the utmost haughtiness. 🔊