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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... reaching home noticed anything decisively alarming. In very many cities bells are the main instruments for communicating between the street and the interior of houses, but in London knockers prevail. At Marr's there was both a knocker and a bell. Mary rang, and at the same time very gently knobked. She had no fear of disturbing her master or mistress; them she made sure of finding still up. Her anxiety was for the baby, who being disturbed might again rob her mistress of a night's rest. And she well knew that with three people all anxiously awaiting her return, and by this time perhaps seriously uneasy at her delay, the least audible whisper from herself would in a moment bring one of them to the door. Yet how is this? To her astonishment, but with the astonishment came creeping over her an icy horror, no stir nor murmur was heard ascending from the kitchen. At this moment came back upon her with shuddering anguish the indistinct image of the stranger in the loose dark coat, whom she had seen stealing along under the shadowy lamp-light, and too certainly watching her master's motions. Keenly she now reproached herself that, under whatever siress of hurry, she had not acquainted Mr. Marr with the suspicious appearances. Poor girl she did not then know that if this communication could have availed to put Marr upon his guard it had reached him from another quarter; so that her own omission, which had in reality arisen under her hurry to execute her master's commission, could not be charged with any bad consequences. But all such reflections this way or that were swallowed up at this point in overmastering panic. That her double summons could have been unnoticed--this solitary fact in one moment made a revelation of horror. One person might... No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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