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As Fatout left the room, Mr Flosky entered, and curiously inspected the literary arrivals. Hatred revenge misanthropy and quotations from the Bible. Hm. This is the morbid anatomy of black bile. 'Paul Jones, a poem. Hm. I see how it is.
She had fainted away with fear; and, when she recovered, she found herself in the dark, and the figure was gone. 'Sacre cochon bleu! exclaimed Fatout, giving very deliberate emphasis to every portion of his terrible oath 'I vould not meet de revenant, de ghost non not for all de bowl-de-ponch in de vorld. 'Fatout, said the Honourable Mr Listless, 'did I ever see a ghost?
Fatout was summoned to unpack it; and it proved to contain a new novel, and a new poem, both of which had long been anxiously expected by the whole host of fashionable readers; and the last number of a popular Review, of which the editor and his coadjutors were in high favour at court, and enjoyed ample pensions for their services to church and state.
On this simple hint, Fatout went to work, and the imperials were packed, and the post-chariot was at the door, without the Honourable Mr Listless having said or thought another syllable on the subject. Mr and Mrs Hilary brought with them an orphan niece, a daughter of Mr Glowry's youngest sister, who had made a runaway love-match with an Irish officer.
De fen be very unwholesome, and I drink-a-de ponch vid Raven de butler, to keep out de bad air. Fatout! I insist on your being sober. Oui, monsieur; I vil be as sober as de reverendissime pere Jean. I should be ver glad of de merry maid; but de butler be de odd fish, and he swim in de bowl de ponch. Ah! ah! I am overwhelmed: I never saw the rascal in such a condition before.
The Honourable Mr Listless, though he had prohibited Fatout from bringing him any more stories of ghosts, could not help thinking of that which Fatout had already brought; and, as it was uppermost in his mind, when he descended to the tea and coffee cups, and the rest of the company in the library, he almost involuntarily asked Mr Flosky, whom he looked up to as a most oraculous personage, whether any story of any ghost that had ever appeared to any one, was entitled to any degree of belief?
Fatout, attending as usual, appeared with a countenance of great dismay, and informed his master that he had just ascertained that the abbey was haunted.
Mr Glowry had discovered this fashionable young gentleman in London, 'stretched on the rack of a too easy chair, and devoured with a gloomy and misanthropical nil curo, and had pressed him so earnestly to take the benefit of the pure country air, at Nightmare Abbey, that Mr Listless, finding it would give him more trouble to refuse than to comply, summoned his French valet, Fatout, and told him he was going to Lincolnshire.
Yes, sir, very many. I vish dere vas von or two here in de kitchen ma foi! Dey be all as melancholic as so many tombstone. I mean, Fatout, an odd kind of human fish. De odd fish! Ah, oui! I understand de phrase: ve have seen nothing else since ve left town ma foi! You seem to have a cup too much, sir. Non, monsieur: de cup too little.
Mrs Hilary's gentlewoman, for whom Fatout had lately conceived a tendresse, had been, as she expressed it, 'fritted out of her seventeen senses' the preceding night, as she was retiring to her bedchamber, by a ghastly figure which she had met stalking along one of the galleries, wrapped in a white shroud, with a bloody turban on its head.
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