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Updated: May 13, 2025
This, too, was half-curtained and dim, for it was six o'clock. Winifred threw off her coat that scent again! then stood, as if shot, transfixed against the bed-rail. Something dark had risen from the sofa in the far corner. A word of horror in her family escaped her: "God!" "It's I Monty," said a voice.
'No, thank you; I want nothing; I have no wish to see anything. I like the dark. 'Have you been asleep? 'No; I have not.... Why do you come to torment me? It cannot matter to you whether I lie in the dark or the light. Oh, take that candle away! it is blinding me. Julia put the candle on the washstand. Then full of pity for the grieving girl, she stood, her hand resting on the bed-rail.
She looked up as if she had been blinded, then stiffly she moved her head. "What do you mean?" "Give me yourself. Oh, I've been mad tonight for days she made me." He pointed to the limp and gracious figure on the floor and leaned against the bed-rail. "Mad! And you, all the time, out there on the moor against the sky. Helen, promise!"
Jack, as soon as released, ran back to the bedroom and threw himself up against the side of the bed, stretching his arms up to be taken. "Don't, dear; go to papa," Elizabeth said, trying to reach him. Jack sidled away toward the foot of the bed, where he regarded his mother with stolid eyes, and beat a tattoo on the bed-rail with his hard little head. "Jack! Don't do that!" she commanded sharply.
He was like a very old wide-awake bird. "Well, my girl!" said grandpa. "Give us a kiss!" Fenella kissed him. "Ugh!" said grandpa. "Her little nose is as cold as a button. What's that she's holding? Her grandma's umbrella?" Fenella smiled again, and crooked the swan neck over the bed-rail. Above the bed there was a big text in a deep black frame: "Lost!
Someone Curtis was bathing her arm in warm water. He did not speak to her or raise his: eyes from his occupation. She thought he looked very grim. "Where is Brett?" she whispered. Curtis did not answer her, but a moment later she looked beyond him and saw Mercer leaning upon the bed-rail. His eyes were fixed upon her and held her own. She sought to avoid them, but could not.
One side of the house was given up to the work animals, some twelve head, besides hogs. In the next room the family lived, the water coming within two inches of the bed-rail. The stove was below water, and the cooking was done on a fire on top of it. The house threatened to give way at any moment: one end of it was sinking, and, in fact, the building looked a mere shell.
He was lying in a sort of stupor, and with difficulty she got him to sit up and lean against the bed-rail. Taking off his tie and collar, she racked her brains for what to give him. Sal volatile! Surely that must be right. It brought him to himself, so that he even tried to kiss her. At last he was in bed, and she stood looking at him. His eyes were closed; he would not see if she gave way now.
The Squire at the foot of the bed held up the candle; the movement had a sinister significance. "Do you defend him?" it seemed to say. "Do you defy me?" Gripping the bed-rail, he cried: "I'll have no gambler and profligate for my son! I'll not risk the estate!" Mrs. Pendyce raised herself, and for many seconds stared at her husband. Her heart beat furiously. It had come!
She did not answer nor yield wholly to his arm. He said again, softly: "Tell me what it is, Gretta. I think I know what is the matter. Do I know?" She did not answer at once. Then she said in an outburst of tears: "O, I am thinking about that song, The Lass of Aughrim." She broke loose from him and ran to the bed and, throwing her arms across the bed-rail, hid her face.
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