The Grey House at Endlestone

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012 - 436 Seiten
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE SHADOWS DEEPEN. Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein ie he to be accounted of ? And there's a lust in man no charm can tame, Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame; On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die. Hilda did not see Horace when he called next morning. Worn out with excitement, grief, and a restless night?the first she had ever known?she awoke late, and found on inquiring that he had only seen a servant, and, having desired his compliments to the ladies, gone away, leaving word that he would call again later in the day. It was close upon noon when Hilda sent her almost untasted breakfast away. Mrs. Mowbray had told her maid to say that she had suffered all night from an excruciating headache, and was now, she thought, inclined to sleep, and did not wish to be disturbed. And she would like to know how Miss Capel was, and advised her to lie down quietly, and rest, if she could, for of course no one would be admitted. Lying down quietly was out of the question. As the slow hours wore on, and Horace did not reappear, Hilda paced the darkened rooms, too weary and too miserable to do aught else, and yet too restless to remain many minutes in one place. Even the weather had changed its gracious mood; a sad-toned, eerie wind moaned and whistled among the trees in Kensington Gardens, a low, leaden- hued mass of clouds rained persistently, now falling drip, drip on the leads, now beating fiercely against the window panes behind the blinds. Once her own maid interrupted her; the girl was deeply distressed on her young mistress's account, though she knew but half the truth, having heard only, with the other servants, that Major Capel had died in Paris, and that his death ...

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