roared with redoubled energy: "Eh! Egh! Murder! murder!" etc.
George had felt resolute to put down this shocking alarm, lest
someone might hear it and fly to the spot, or draw inferences
widely different from the truth; and, perceiving the terror of this
elect youth to be so great that expostulation was vain, he seized
him by the mouth and nose with his left hand so strenuously that
he sank his fingers into his cheeks. But, the poltroon still
attempting to bray out, George gave him such a stunning blow
with his fist on the left temple that he crumbled, as it were, to the
ground, but more from the effects of terror than those of the blow.
His nose, however, again gushed out blood, a system of defence
which seemed as natural to him as that resorted to by the race of
stinkards. He then raised himself on his knees and hams, and
raising up his ghastly face, while the blood streamed over both
ears, he besought his life of his brother, in the most abject
whining manner, gaping and blubbering most piteously.

"Tell me then, Sir," said George, resolved to make the most of the
wretch's terror--"tell me for what purpose it is that you
haunt my steps? Tell me plainly, and instantly, else I will throw
you from the verge of that precipice."

"Oh, I will never do it again! I will never do it again! Spare my
life, dear, good brother! Spare my life! Sure I never did you any
hurt."

"Swear to me, then, by the God that made you, that you will
never henceforth follow after me to torment me with your hellish
threatening looks; swear that you will never again come into my
presence without being invited. Will you take an oath to this