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` I know it , ' replied his companion , ` and I see you are impatient . But look . Through the eastern window -- placed opposite to us , that the first beams of the rising sun may every morning gild our giant faces -- the moon-rays fall upon the pavement in a stream of light that to my fancy sinks through the cold stone and gushes into the old crypt below . The night is scarcely past its noon , and our great charge is sleeping heavily . ' They ceased to speak , and looked upward at the moon . The sight of their large , black , rolling eyes filled Joe Toddyhigh with such horror that he could scarcely draw his breath . Still they took no note of him , and appeared to believe themselves quite alone .