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Then she cursed Sir Massingberd as the oppressor of her kith and kin, concluding with the terrible words, "May he perish, inch by inch, within reach of the aid that shall never come, ere the God of the poor take him into His hand!"
The old woman met us, and conducted us to the vehicle, when we found Sinnamenta, Lady Heath, weaving rushes into crowns. "My little sister is not beaten now," said the beldam. "May God's curse have found Sir Massingberd! I would that I had his fleshless bones to show you. Where he may be we know not; we only hope that in some hateful spot he may be suffering unimagined pains!"
"Nursed!" repeated Harvey Gerard hoarsely. "Nursed by the gravedigger!" Sir Massingberd turned livid. "To hear you talk one would think that I had tried to murder the boy," he said. "I know you did!" cried Harvey Gerard solemnly. "To-day you sent your nephew forth upon that devil with a snaffle-bridle instead of a curb! See, I track your thoughts like slime.
Then a keeper climbed the tree, and cried out that it was hollow, and there was a skeleton inside. "It's my belief," said the man, "that Sir Massingberd must have climbed up into the fork to look about him for poachers, and that the wood gave way beneath him, and let him down feet foremost into the trunk."
He said, moreover, that the youth must be kept perfectly quiet, and not moved thence on any consideration it might be for weeks. Harvey Gerard, a noble-looking gentleman, refused to admit Sir Massingberd under his roof. The baronet, however, did appear towards twilight, and forced his way into the house, where Harvey Gerard met him with great severity.
Base ruffian, begone from beneath this roof, false coward!" Sir Massingberd started up like one stung by an adder. "Yes, I say coward!" continued Harvey Gerard. "Heavens, that this creature should still feel touch of shame! Be off, be off; molest not anyone within this house at peril of your life! Murderer!" For once Sir Massingberd had met his match and more.
This was on the publication of "Lost Sir Massingberd, a Romance of Real Life." The story first appeared in "Chambers's Journal," and is marked by all his good qualities ingenious construction, dramatic situations, and a skilful arrangement of incidents. Altogether, Payn wrote about sixty volumes of novels and short stories. I. Neither Fearing God Nor Regarding Man
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