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After this shaft I sank into silence, and was relieved when I saw the grey, buttressed gables of Startington Hall appear below us grouped amid its trees. 'It certainly looks like a haunted house, I remarked aloud, though I was merely speaking to myself, 'even though the tradition has no foundation of fact.
As I knew him to be engaged upon his family history I thought that his gentle mind must be exercised upon some uncomfortable episode in the life story of an ancestor, and I hit upon the notion that a certain Sir Humphrey Startington a notable merchant adventurer, who was said to have largely increased the family estate by his traffic in slaves in the seventeenth century was the family skeleton that was haunting him.
'The rougher the weather without, said my uncle genially, 'the warmer the welcome within, and here one may warm both body and soul, he pointed to the fire and the well-filled bookshelves. 'Most of them are my own treasures, he added, 'for the Startington family was given to keep up cellar and stable, rather than the library, as probably you know.
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