Around the new position a circle, somewhat larger than in the former
instance, was now described, and we again set to work with the spades.
I was dreadfully weary, but, scarcely understanding what had
occasioned the change in my thoughts, I felt no longer any great
aversion from the labor imposed. I had become most unaccountably
interested --nay, even excited. Perhaps there was something, amid
all the extravagant demeanor of Legrand --some air of forethought,
or of deliberation, which impressed me. I dug eagerly, and now and
then caught myself actually looking, with something that very much
resembled expectation, for the fancied treasure, the vision of which
had demented my unfortunate companion. At a period when such
vagaries of thought most fully possessed me, and when we had been at
work perhaps an hour and a half, we were again interrupted by the
violent howlings of the dog. His uneasiness, in the first instance,
had been, evidently, but the result of playfulness or caprice, but
he now assumed a bitter and serious tone.
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