Answer:
"but the figure in question had out-heroded herod, and gone beyond the bounds of even the prince's indefinite decorum... the figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave."
"he had come like a thief in the night. and one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall."
