"I thought you were asleep. 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. Only a book detective could dope this out. Nothing that I desire to remember," replied Sheppard, sternly. She infused menace into her voice. "There's an old proverb," continued Wood, rising and walking towards the fire, "which says,—'Put another man's child in your bosom, and he'll creep out at your elbow. If they do, now and then, run away with a knocker, paint a sign, beat the watch, or huff a magistrate, they pay for their pastime, and that's sufficient. "What has happened?" Ruth asked. . Women, she had been taught, who exposed the flesh of their bodies under the eyes of man were in a special catagory of the damned. Bold women certainly existed in the Middle Ages--Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is evidence of this--but meek women were probably the norm, good Christian family ladies who wanted nothing more than to serve God and have children. " "Wonderful! It's an infernal shame. He left that arid rule clear of the least mist of refinement or delicacy. But they did not know how good she was, how perfect she was. The place was gloomy, with its darkly panelled walls, but it was sparsely furnished.
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