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Updated: June 23, 2025
She was good-tempered and kind to all about her, but not as sensible and discreet as she should have been. When Mr Ranald and Mr Ralph left school young Martin Goul, whose character was not so well known then as it was afterwards, came to the house to pay them a visit.
As may be supposed, old Martin Goul and his poor witless wife were in a sad taking when they found that their son had been carried off by a pressgang. Old Goul vowed vengeance against those who had managed to have his son spirited away. His own days, however, were coming to a close.
The death of his son was known to many others before Lawyer Goul heard of it, for it was no one's business to tell him, and few would have been willing to do so. At last, one day in an old newspaper which contained an account of the loss of the Resistance, his eye fell on the announcement. He let the paper drop, sank back in his chair, and never spoke again.
They stopped to listen to what Gaffin was saying. "Who are you?" she exclaimed at last, gasping for breath, and advancing towards the unhappy man. "Who has a right to ask me that?" he shrieked out. "Martin Goul I was once called. They tell me I broke my father's heart, that my mother threw herself from the cliffs, and that the only being I ever loved was laid in the cold grave.
As they had been playmates for some years, and he dressed well and rode a fine horse, they seemed to forget that he was old Martin Goul's son, and treated him like one of themselves. To my mind, continued the dame, nothing belonging to old Goul was fit to associate with Mr Castleton's sons.
L. has recorded the repugnance of the school to gags, or the fat of fresh beef boiled; and sets it down to some superstition. A gag-eater in our time was equivalent to a goul, and held in equal detestation. suffered under the imputation. 'Twas said He ate strange flesh. None saw when he ate them. It was rumoured that he privately devoured them in the night.
"What hae ye, a puir hind, to do wi' the Baron o' Ballochgray? Turn, for the sake o' heaven! turn frae that living grave o' dry banes, an' the weary goul that sits jabbering owre them, by their ain light!"
They warned her that the consequences would be serious to all concerned. Martin Goul was as good as his word. He got another young fellow who passed for a gentleman, something like himself, to carry a challenge to Mr Ranald. The young fellow did not like to come into the house, so he waylaid Mr Ranald near the entrance of the park, and delivered a letter he had brought from Martin Goul.
She had died of starvation, there was no doubt about that, for there was not a crust of bread in the kitchen, nor a bit of coal to light a fire. How Martin Goul had managed to live it was hard to say, except that his wife had been seen stealing out at dusk, and it was supposed that she had managed to pick up food for herself and her husband.
"My son was wild and extravagant, but he could not have been guilty of the crimes you name. I was the mother of young Martin Goul; he was the only being on earth I loved. Oh the salt, salt sea." "You my mother, you," shrieked out the wretched man, and he again burst forth into a fit of hideous laughter, which froze the hearts of Adam and his son.
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