There was a man sitting or kneeling on Sampson's window-sill, and looking in, and I thought he was beckoning...He looked as if he was wet all over: and," he said, looking round and whispering as if he hardly liked to hear himself, "I'm not at all sure that he was alive. (M. R. James)

There was a man sitting or kneeling on Sampson's window-sill, and looking in, and I thought he was beckoning...He looked as if he was wet all over: and," he said, looking round and whispering as if he hardly liked to hear himself, "I'm not at all sure that he was alive.

M. R. James

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