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“Suppose I chuck it,” she remarked, standing with the mauve slip in her hand
—“suppose I chuck it, and surrender and go home! Perhaps, after all, Roddy was
right!
“Father keeps opening the door and shutting it, but a time will come—
“I could still go home!”
She held Ramage’s check as if to tear it across. He rested his brow on his hand and conveyed magnificent tragedy by his pose. “You needn’t be anxious about that! I
shall contrive to live. He drew out
the check and the editorial letter. He hung over her—he and his loan to her
and his connection with her and that terrible evening—a vague, disconcerting
possibility of annoyance and exposure. The windows
were grated, the doors barred; each room had the name as well as the appearance
of a cell; and the very porter who stood at the gate, habited like a jailer, with his
huge bunch of keys at his girdle, his forbidding countenance and surly
demeanour seemed to be borrowed from Newgate. E. 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. "Tut, tut! Don't exaggerate. The primitive superstition of his Puritan forbears was his;
and before this the buckler of his education disintegrated. Secretly she was gratified to be
assigned to the rôle of an old traveller. "
"The Tigress!" The doctor laughed. They WERE,
she realized, acutely beautiful things. His
voice now had lost its ironies.
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