When they reached her rooms she stepped
lightly out upon the pavement. On the right were
several mounted grenadiers: on the left, some half dozen javelin-men. "
"I'll bet she still smells to heaven with sour coconut. He was halfway across the ballroom, where the dancing had ceased for the
musicians to take a well-earned rest, when Roding pounced on him. The man’s statement was
explicit, and spoken with confidence. She wore a plain black dress, reaching almost to
her throat—her small oval face, with the large brown eyes, was colourless,
delicately expressive, yet with something mysterious in its Sphinx-like
immobility. He impetuously
grasped a hold of her hand, looking for a callous. In a fit of despondency, superinduced
by drunkenness, he made away with himself; and when the body was discovered,
after a lapse of some months, such was the impression produced by the spectacle
—such the alarm occasioned by the crazy state of the building, and, above all, by
the terror inspired by strange and unearthly noises heard during the night, which
were, of course, attributed to the spirit of the suicide, that the place speedily
enjoyed the reputation of being haunted, and was, consequently, entirely
abandoned. "You depart for
Lancashire to-morrow. “Good God!” he exclaimed. Darrell attempted to reply. She returned to
these latter, and at the back of her mind, as she looked them over again, was a
very distinct resolve to quote them after the manner of Miss Garvice at the very
first opportunity. Promise me that you will not disobey the injunctions
of her whose memory we must both of us ever revere. You told him there wasn't anything in the pockets?"
"Yes. .
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