The man threw the dagger down, and was in the act of rushing out, when

the door opened, and a posse of constables entered the house
The man threw the dagger down, and was in the act of rushing out, when
the door opened, and a posse of constables entered the house. Nell"s
face became at once ghastly and horror-stricken, for she found that the
blood could not be staunched, and that, in fact, eternity was about to
open upon her.