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'A separation! said Lady Monmouth. 'Quite amicable, said Mr. Rigby. 'I would never have consented to interfere in the affair, but to secure that most desirable point. 'I will see Lord Monmouth at once, said Lucretia, rising, her natural pallor aggravated into a ghoul-like tint. 'His Lordship has gone out, said Mr. Rigby, rather stubbornly.
Only forty years of age when the Long Parliament released him from his second imprisonment and restored him to society, a ghoul-like creature with a scarred and mutilated face, hiding the loss of his twice-cropped ears under a woollen cowl or nightcap, and mostly sitting alone among his books and papers in his chamber in Lincoln's Inn, taking no regular meals, but occasionally munching bread and refreshing himself with ale, he had at once resumed his polemical habits and mixed himself up as a pamphleteer with all that was going on.
The breeze itself was lulled and the fog gathered itself together and wrapped the unavowable horrors of the night in a gray and ghoul-like shroud. Madness lurked in the eyes of the sacrilegious murderer. Madness which helped him not only to carry his grim task to the end, but, having accomplished it, to see that it was well done.
He, I noticed, put the key in his pocket, instead of delivering it to me, self-constituted its rightful owner. "Will you give me my key?" I said, with a timid tenacity in the direction of my right. "Not enough of the dreary, ghoul-like place yet, Anna? And to give us such an alarm upon your arrival-day!" The key came to me, for Aaron would not keep it without good reason.
Their lips curled back and stretched tightly over the gums in ghoul-like grins. Through their white, gripped teeth struggled hoarse whisperings of oaths. Their eyes glittered with murderous fire. Each head was huddled between its owner's shoulders, and arms were swinging with marvelous rapidity. Feet scraped to and fro with a loud scratching sound upon the sanded floor.
Then for the first time the riders permanently abated their speed, and their prisoner enquired of them whither they were carrying her. "Never mind that, my pretty passenger pigeon," replied the elder with a ghoul-like grin; "you will not require to find your way back this year."
Somehow or other, as the young heir to all this helpless poverty stood in the courtyard, with his sharp, refined, intelligent features, and his strange elegance of dress and aspect, one better comprehended how, left solely to the egotism of his knowledge and his ambition, in such a family, and without any of the sweet nameless lessons of Home, he had grown up into such close and secret solitude of soul, how the mind had taken so little nutriment from the heart, and how that affection and respect which the warm circle of the heart usually calls forth had passed with him to the graves of dead fathers, growing, as it were, bloodless and ghoul-like amidst the charnels on which they fed.
But now, at sight of gravefaced Barnabas, he laughed again, and this time it sounded less ghoul-like. "Debt is a habit," he continued sententiously, "that grows on one most damnably, and creditors are the most annoying people in the world so confoundedly unreasonable! Of course I pay 'em now and then deserving cases, y' know. Fellow called on me t' other day, seemed to know his face.
That an ancestor of Nathanael Hawthorne should have been a party to it, holds a suggestion of the tendencies which in the novelist's case, gave him that interest in the sombre side of life, and the relish for the somewhat ghoul-like details, on which he lingered with a fascination his readers are compelled to share.
He stared; laid his yellow fingers on my bared arm with a kind of ghoul-like interest and wonder, and felt the muscles of it with childish, almost maudlin admiration. "Beautiful, beautiful!" he mumbled. "Like iron just think of it! Yes, yes. You could kill anything easily. Ah! I used to be like that once. I was clever at sword-play.
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