As it is not, however, our intention to furnish a
complete catalogue of these curiosities, we shall merely mention that in front of
them lay a large and sharp knife, once the property of the public executioner, and
used by him to dissever the limbs of those condemned to death for high-treason;
together with an immense two-pronged flesh-fork, likewise employed by the
same terrible functionary to plunge the quarters of his victims in the caldrons of
boiling tar and oil. The
rest were hieroglyphic characters, executed in red chalk and charcoal. He was standing
by, rating her ladyship,—who can scarcely stir from the sofa,—while I was
packing up her jewels in the case, and I observed that she tried to hide a small
casket from him. Come back with me to-night. It was
on the night of the Great Storm that I found him. ’
Hilary Roding, despite the fact that he was both a younger and slighter man
than his friend—although wiry and tough with an attractive countenance that had
won him the heart of an extremely eligible young lady—had a rooted conviction,
as Gerald well knew, that it was not safe to leave Alderley to his own reckless
devices. "No," replied Jack. It is bad
policy. “Dear me, what a relief! If I had had any nerves that man would have trampled
upon them long ago. "What have you seen?" inquired Lady Trafford. "
"Leave you!" echoed the ruffian, with a contemptuous laugh; "—not just yet.
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