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A MARRIAGE, PART II
She dreamt of the inn they had stopped at after her
suicide attempt, the flea-ridden hostel her husband had
angrily toted her to after the incident at the country
house. And a time will come, Veronica, mark my
words, a time will come when you will bless me for my firmness to-night. And he had destroyed all this. "I've known
several cases where the ignominious doom I've mentioned has been foretold by
such an accident as has just befallen you. . She ran down alleyways and between buildings,
faster than an Olympian, until she could hear his voice no
more. People were passing in the
street below. One of his converted Kanakas dropped in one day. “Then you—you will?”
A long pause. 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. ”
She eyed him scornfully. ’
‘Yes, do so,’ rejoined Melusine enthusiastically. His eyes never
left her face.
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