| When I had waited a | ||||||||
| long time | ||||||||
| very patiently | ||||||||
| without hearing him | ||||||||
| lie down, I resolved to open a little -- | ||||||||
| a very, very little crevice in the lantern. | ||||||||
| So I opened it -- you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily -- | ||||||||
| until at length a single dim ray | ||||||||
| like the thread of the spider shot out from the crevice and fell upon the vulture eye. |