Excerpt from The Witching Hour: Illustrated From Scenes in the Play The sextet on the stage was finishing at that mo ment, and, under cover of the applause that fol lowed, Viola leaned forward in pretended comment to Ellinger, who sat in the front of the box with Viola's mother and Mrs. Whipple. Hardmuth was in doubt. The conductor lifted his baton for an encore, the house recomposed itself. Viola was too inexperienced to proceed courageously with her half-formed inten tion to change seats with Ellinger; moreover, there was another admonitory glance from her mother, so she fell back and kept her place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.