"
"You flatter me," smiled Sir James. Do you remember when we went right away, Nigel, and forgot
everything? We went down the river past Veraz, and the larks were singing all
over those deep brown fields, and the river further on wound its way like a coil
of silver across the rich meadowland, and along the hillside vineyards. Ha! ha! What have I left but despair
and madness? Promise me one thing, Mr. What has become of the other?"
"Why, surely you don't mean Jack Sheppard?" cried the woollen-draper in
surprise. Be kind to her. No doubt there’s some little mistake. 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.
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