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As they passed through the street, they perceived three or four persons standing round the open door of a house of ordinary description, the windows of which were partially closed. "It is the house," said the curate, "in which Houseman's daughter died, poor, poor child! Yet why mourn for the young?
Aram replied not to this question; but threatened him, if he spoke of his being in Clarke's company that night; vowing revenge either by himself or some other person if he mentioned any thing relating to the affair. This was the sum of Houseman's evidence. A Mr.
He had resolved, had Houseman's attitude been different, to surrender Madeline at once. V. Human Bones The unexpected change in her lover's demeanour, on his return to Grassdale, brought unspeakable joy to the heart of Madeline Lester. But hardly had Aram left Houseman's squalid haunt in Lambeth when a letter was put into the ruffian's hand telling of his daughter's serious illness.
I did not feel remorse, but I felt regret. The thought that had I waited three days I might have been saved, not from guilt, but from the chance of shame, from the degradation of sinking to Houseman's equal of feeling that man had the power to hurt me that I was no longer above the reach of human malice, or human curiosity that I was made a slave to my own secret that I was no longer lord of my heart, to shew or to conceal it that at any hour, in the possession of honours, by the hearth of love, I might be dragged forth and proclaimed a murderer that I held my life, my reputation, at the breath of accident that in the moment I least dreamed of, the earth might yield its dead, and the gibbet demand its victim; this could I feel all this and not make a spectre of the past: a spectre that walked by my side that slept at my bed that rose from my books that glided between me and the stars of heaven, that stole along the flowers, and withered their sweet breath that whispered in my ear, 'Toil, fool, and be wise; the gift of wisdom is to place us above the reach of fortune, but thou art her veriest minion! Yes; I paused at last from my wanderings, and surrounded myself with books, and knowledge became once more to me what it had been, a thirst; but not what it had been, a reward.
He and his comrades were evidently, then, Houseman's desperate associates; and they too, though they were borne too rapidly by Aram to be able to rein in their horses on the spot, had seen the solitary traveller, and already wheeled round, and called upon him to halt! The lightning was again gone, and the darkness snatched the robbers and their intended victim from the sight of each other.
Following the directions they had received, they hired a carriage at the steamboat-landing, to convey them to a farm-house a few miles distant. As they approached the designated place, they saw a slender man, in drab-colored clothes, lowering a bucket into the well. Mr. King alighted, and inquired, "Is this Mr. Houseman's farm, sir?" "My name is Joseph Houseman," replied the Quaker.
Atkins yielded to nature, and was violently sick at the sight he had searched for so eagerly. He also sent a messenger to Mr. Houseman, telling him the corpus delicti was found. He did this, partly to show that gentleman he was right in his judgment, and partly out of common humanity; since, after this discovery, Mr. Houseman's client was sure to be tried for her life.
Summers, I feels more easy than I has felt for many a long day; an' if I have not told it afore, it is because I thought of Houseman's frown and his horrid words; but summut of it would ooze out of my tongue now an' then, for it's a hard thing, sir, to know a secret o' that sort and be quiet and still about it; and, indeed, I was not the same cretur when I knew it as I was afore, for it made me take to anything rather than thinking; and that's the reason, sir, I lost the good crackter I used to have."
Then Marit laughed and said, "He is the son of the houseman at Pladsen." Oyvind had always known that he was a houseman's son; but until now he had never realized it. It made him feel so very little, smaller than all the rest; in order to keep up he had to try and think of all that hitherto had made him happy and proud, from the coasting hill to each kind word.
The school-master sat down in front of him. "Are you not glad that you passed?" There was a quivering about the lips but no reply. "Your mother and father will be very glad," said the school-master, and looked at Oyvind. The boy struggled hard to gain power of utterance, finally he asked in low, broken tones, "Is it because I am a houseman's son that I only stand number nine or ten?"
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