’ Lucilla let out a peal of laughter. ” “You came—here!” he repeated, vaguely. They conversed, or more or less she interviewed him. His relation of the murder of Sir Rowland petrified even his fierce auditors. Then her white teeth gleamed, and her excuse for remaining any longer before that little marble table was gone. Gerald swore. He described her privately to himself as a splendid girl. “Broddick is a heavy man,” he was saying, “and the main interest of the play was the embezzlement. “I remember hearing something about it. ’ ‘So I heard. 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. He had pictured her, if indeed she had ever had the courage to do this thing, as sitting alone, convulsed with guilty fear, starting at her own shadow, a slave to constant terror. But his astonishment would have been great indeed had he known that not even her father had ever caressed her, either with lips or with hands. This forthright dame was so excited, she could not keep still, but paced about the parlour much as Melusine had done earlier.
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