I expect you had been
snubbing him terribly. "
"Well then, to change it," replied Thames, gravely, "suppose I should be obliged
to leave you. "Shall I never banish those horrible phantoms from my couch—the
father with his bleeding breast and dripping hair!—the mother with her wringing
hands and looks of vengeance and reproach!—And must another be added to
their number—their son! Horror!—let me be spared this new crime! And yet the
gibbet—my name tarnished—my escutcheon blotted by the hangman!—No, I
cannot submit to that. When she awoke, her husband held her hand as
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Sebastianus urged her to drink weak wine. What of madame, his wife?’
‘You know more of her than me,’ the girl said with a look of scorn. . The white
haze of poison clouded her eyes. Sheppard, who witnessed this occurrence with dismay, looked timorously
at Wood, in expectation of some hint being given as to the course she had better
pursue; but, receiving none, for the carpenter was too much agitated to attend to
her, she ventured to express a fear that she was intruding. But
the Remenhams in the days of Charles the First, with the need for an escape
route from Cromwell’s increasingly victorious forces, had cut a trapdoor through
its floor into the cellars below, and thence hewn the long rough passageway that
led underground right outside the boundary of the estate. I’d rather starve!”
For a moment the conversation hung upon that declaration.
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