Wood heard the cry. “The real reason why I am out of place here,” she
said, “is because I like men. \"Look at how fair he is! The Lord has blessed Isobella
with a fine son. We,
ourselves, are scarcely the same we were twelve years ago. 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. The glass in the windows was broken—the roof
unthatched—the walls dilapidated. Michelle had charitably taken to sitting with Lucy
during Lunch Period, where she assumed a station at the
outer edges of the Cafeteria, the crowd diffusing in
concentric orbits, the middle tables reserved for only the
most prestigious castes. There was nothing in his
manner to suggest the misery of the preceding night. Five hours later she tiptoed down the hall and paused at the threshold of what
they now called his study. The
boat's sure to run foul o' the bridge; and if she 'scapes stavin' above, she'll be
swamped to a sartainty below.
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