After dinner Ann Veronica went into the drawing-room with Miss Stanley, and her father went up to his den for his pipe and pensive petrography. She rested for a half hour in heaven on earth, feeling herself drift in and out of sleep. After all, she was a consummate actress. ’ Gerald gazed at her without expression. “It was a phase,” she said. “Dear me! I wonder what I ought to do. 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. ’ His features relaxed again and he grinned. I know what I am doing better than you do.
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