‘I never met a rat what wandered about the place with a lantern, I didn’t,’
grumbled the old lodgekeeper aggrievedly. Both, however, having
safely landed, they cautiously crossed the room, and passed down the first flight
of steps in silence. . At this moment, Blueskin
appeared with the lamp, and revealed a horrible spectacle,—the floor deluged
with blood,—various articles of furniture upset,—papers scattered about,—the
murdered man's cloak, trampled upon, and smeared with gore,—his hat, crushed
and similarly stained,—his sword,—the ensanguined cloth,—with several other
ghastly evidences of the slaughterous deed. Her heart in her
mouth, she heard his foot scrape on the floorboard and knew from his expression
that Gosse had heard it too. She was no longer certain that she desired an Englishman, if she must judge of
one in particular. Then, there shall be laid upon your body as much iron, or stone
as you can bear, and more. "This suspense is worse than torture. But that still left the forty pounds!. ”
And thus it was that as Ann Veronica neared the gates of home, she said to
herself: “I’ll have it out with him somehow. “And somehow or other,” she added, after a long interval, “I must pay Mr. “I regret that you should ever have proposed it,” he went on. ”
“I had to,” she repeated. Anna was afterwards astonished at her own selfpossession.
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