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‘There are no Remenhams left. Kneebone's visit, Mrs. And, mind, it's for his sister, Lady Trafford. “Why should women be dependent on men?” she asked; and the question was at once converted into a system of variations upon the theme of “Why are things as they are?”—“Why are human beings viviparous?”—“Why are people hungry thrice a day?”—“Why does one faint at danger?” She stood for a time looking at the dry limbs and still human face of that desiccated unwrapped mummy from the very beginnings of social life. The ruffian's companions took his part. ’ ‘But she must have known I’d longed to hear of you. " "I can't. " "What's that?" asked Wood with some curiosity. This horrible piece of deformity, who acted as drawer and cellarman, and was a constant butt to the small wits of the jail, was nicknamed the Black Dog of Newgate. Only your horror of a grandfather insisted on coming with me, so I had to wait for him to be ready and travel at his pace. Annabel lounged in her chair with a sort of insolent abandon in her pose, and wide-open eyes which never flinched or drooped. The spinster saw herself growing warm again in the morning sunshine of youth —a flaring ember before the hearth grew cold. 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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