She closed the book that she
had been pretending to read and gathered her black
umbrella and her backpack, a childish accoutrement she
despised. "
"As many as you please," replied Wood, walking towards the chimney-piece,
and taking down a constable's, staff, which hung upon a nail. "And you have seen … drunken men?" Prudence's tones were full of suppressed
horror. Grasping it firmly with both hands, he quickly wrenched if from the
stones in which it was mortised, and leapt to the ground. Lucia confined herself to her quarters, wondering
when they would flee to the country as so many other
houses had done. The necessity which had previously existed of leaving the ghastly evidence of
the murderous deed undisturbed,—the presence of the mangled corpse,—the
bustle of the inquest, at which her attendance was required,—all these
circumstances produced a harrowing effect upon the young girl's imagination.
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