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Updated: July 7, 2025
To-morrow we will cut out this Houseman's eyes and tongue, so that he may see nothing and tell nothing. Then you may have him for your plaything it will be better so." The eyelids fell, and the old man slept placidly, his face serene as that of a babe. The two boys stole quietly away. Down a narrow passage and a flight of stairs into a dark, cool room, underground, as Constans conjectured.
HE was born in the houseman's lodge; she in the great mansion. He did not know who his father was; she was the daughter of Grim of Skogli, and she was the only daughter he had.
The Student, who had diverged from the path at Houseman's direction, now paused at a place where the matted bushes seemed to forbid any farther progress; and said, for the first time breaking the silence, "We cannot proceed; shall this be the place of our conference?" "No," said Houseman, "we had better pierce the bushes. I know the way, but will not lead it." "And wherefore?"
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?
If, after this interview, I feel that I cannot command and bind Houseman's perpetual secrecy, I will surrender Madeline at once. She has loved me generously and trustingly. I will not link her life with one that may be called hence in any hour, and to so dread an account. Neither shall the grey hairs of Lester be brought with the sorrow of my shame, to a dishonoured and untimely grave.
Housemen who make this sort of contract with farmers in Norway are never turned out. They have their dwelling and field for their own life and that of their wives. What they do, when disabled, is to take in a deserving young man to do their work for the farmer, on the understanding that he succeeds to the houseman's place on the death of the old people.
Moreover, it rankles in the Houseman's breast that no Stockader pays a farthing of head-money to the treasure-chest of the Doomsmen. Now and then some well-to-do proprietor may suffer loss from cattle thieving and rick burning, but as often as not the marauders pay full price for all they get.
Some half-piratical boats, Illanun and Balagnini, were burned; twenty-four or twenty-five brass guns captured; the iron guns, likewise stated to have been got out of a ship, were spiked and otherwise destroyed. Thus has Malluda ceased to exist; and Seriff Houseman's power received a fall from which it will never recover.
Is this your whole ground for suspicion; the mere circumstance of Houseman's being last seen with Clarke?" "Consider also the dissolute and bold character of Houseman. Clarke evidently had his jewels and money with him they were not left in the house. What a temptation to one who was more than suspected of having in the course of his life taken to plunder!
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."
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