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"Then you will be the less shocked when I inform you that the circumstances which have driven me to seek your aid occurred recently in Castle Cragg, in the family of Lord Vincent." "It is not the murder that was lately committed there to which you allude?" gravely inquired the inspector. "Oh, no, not that murder; but I greatly fear there has been another one," replied Claudia, with a shudder.
"We ain't got no money and no jewelry, and no silver to leave them we love all we've got to leave 'em is the price of our own lives," said Nahum Beals. "I wish I had got my life insured," Andrew said. "Don't talk so, Andrew," Fanny cried, with a shudder. "My life is insured for two thousand dollars," Joe Atkins said, with an odd sort of pride. "I had it done three years ago.
There was much satisfaction in sitting down to such a repast as the Colonel knew how to give, only it made one shudder a little when he told us the names of great people long passed away who had ranged themselves about the same piece of mahogany during the days of his father and grandfather, for fourscore years into the past.
I shall lose what I have not got; the poor invalid will lack necessities; and I shall be able to pay neither my personal expenses nor my son's fees when he goes on board ship.... These thoughts made me shudder, and I threw down my pen, saying, 'Bah! to-morrow I shall have forgotten the symphony. The next night I heard the allegro clearly, and seemed to see it written down.
Then slowly, like a wise mother, Nature gave into her conscious thought the knowledge of things as they were. She turned yes! there was Jude. But she did not shrink nor shudder now. Young as she was, she had seen death many, many times. She had gone to the portals, alone, with others beside her poor baby. She rose now, and walked over to Jude's side.
Van Burnam the senior, who had shrunk as far from sight as possible through these painful demonstrations, rose up at these words from his agonized son, and making him an encouraging gesture, walked hastily out of the room; seeing which, the young man became calmer, and though he did not cease to shudder, tried to restrain his first grief, which to those who looked closely at him was evidently very sincere.
He did not tarry this time for breath nor shelter, though the wind had no whit abated, but trod right on till he reached the spot where the catastrophe which had been so near fatal to him had occurred. "It was a narrow escape," mused he, looking down upon the place, not without a slight shudder. "What odd things come into the head when Death is whispering in the ear!
'Yes, he said, taking the cross again in his hand and fondling it passionately, 'it must never be possessed by any one after me. 'But it might be stolen, father stolen from your coffin. 'That would indeed he a disaster, he said with a shudder.
A cold shudder ran down his back, his face grew pale, and his lips trembled, for he heard two men discussing the murder and the capture of his friends. An involuntary smile lighted up the gloom of his features for a moment as one remarked that the chief offender, the woman's husband, had eluded pursuit. Then he crept back into the desert and waited for the dawn.
To the honour, to the wisdom, to the feelings of the house I now make my appeal, perfectly confident that you will not tolerate, as senators, a traffic, which, as men, you shudder to contemplate, and that you will not take upon yourselves the responsibility of this waste of existence.