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You have been in Mr. Leavenworth's family a year?" "Yes, sir." "And liked it? found him a good master?" "Och, sir, niver have I found a better, worse luck to the villain as killed him. He was that free and ginerous, sir, that many 's the time I have said to Hannah " She stopped, with a sudden comical gasp of terror, looking at her fellow-servants like one who had incautiously made a slip.
Thinking that some of the neighbors were sick, I hurriedly rose on my elbow and asked who was there. The answer came in low, muffled tones, 'Hannah, Miss Leavenworth's girl! Please let me in at the kitchen door. Startled at hearing the well-known voice, and fearing I knew not what, I caught up a lamp and hurried round to the door. 'Is any one with you? I asked. 'No, she replied.
My heart gave a bound of relief, and I saw Eleanore Leavenworth's hands drop from her brow like stone, while a flickering gleam as of hope fled over her face, and then died away like sunlight leaving marble. "For, strange as it may seem to you," Mary earnestly continued, the shadow of a past horror revisiting her countenance, "I did not enter the room where my uncle lay.
The clenched hand pausing irresolute, then making up its mind to go through with the lie firmly, was enough for me. "Mr. Harwell, this is undoubtedly true according to your judgment," said the coroner; "but Mr. Leavenworth's correspondence will have to be searched for all that." "Of course," he replied carelessly; "that is only right." This remark ended Mr. Harwell's examination for the time.
I thought but little of it in a superstitious way till I looked next day upon Mr. Leavenworth's dead body." "I do not wonder you behaved strangely at the inquest." "Ah, sir," he returned, with a slow, sad smile; "no one knows what I suffered in my endeavors not to tell more than I actually knew, irrespective of my dream, of this murder and the manner of its accomplishment."
Observing this and taking it as a compliment, being a woman as well as a cook, she immediately dropped a curtsey, and opening her lips was about to speak, when the coroner, rising impatiently in his seat, took the word from her mouth by saying sternly: "Your name?" "Katherine Malone, sir." "Well, Katherine, how long have you been in Mr. Leavenworth's service?"
Gryce, and proceeded immediately to the house of Mr. Veeley. "Fe, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman." Old Song. "I hold you as a thing enskied and sainted." Measure for Measure. "YOU have never heard, then, the particulars of Mr. Leavenworth's marriage?" It was my partner who spoke. I had been asking him to explain to me Mr. Leavenworth's well-known antipathy to the English race.
Leavenworth's opinion, a prodigious eye for color. As a customer, Mr. Leavenworth used to drop into Roderick's studio, to see how things were getting on, and give a friendly hint or so.
Leavenworth's death; but I cannot prove the fact." "Did not speak of it next morning to any one?" "O no, sir; I was scarcely in a position to do so." "Yet it must have had a great effect upon you, unfitting you for work " "Nothing unfits me for work," was his bitter reply. "I believe you," I returned, remembering his diligence for the last few days.
But perhaps she didn't know anything about that Miss Leavenworth's position, I mean?" "Yes, she did, for I told her. I was so astonished I could not keep it to myself.
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