"Come down stairs directly, and let your mother look at your wrist. On the Day he had trumpet-like outbreaks of cordiality, varied by a watchful preoccupation. One would think I had agreed to her going. ’ Lucilla frowned. "You've given him a broken head, I perceive. In a fit of despondency, superinduced by drunkenness, he made away with himself; and when the body was discovered, after a lapse of some months, such was the impression produced by the spectacle —such the alarm occasioned by the crazy state of the building, and, above all, by the terror inspired by strange and unearthly noises heard during the night, which were, of course, attributed to the spirit of the suicide, that the place speedily enjoyed the reputation of being haunted, and was, consequently, entirely abandoned. I did not lay any traps for her. She suspected that he would take a mistress just as soon as they returned to Florence. On the one hand, she seemed to think plainly and simply, and would talk serenely and freely about topics that most women have been trained either to avoid or conceal; and on the other she was unconscious, or else she had an air of being unconscious—that was the riddle—to all sorts of personal applications that almost any girl or woman, one might have thought, would have made. She did not open the Bible but laid it on the edge of the bed, knelt and rested her forehead upon the worn leather cover. “And even then—” The conversation hung for a thoughtful moment. As she drew off her skirt she felt something in the pocket, and remembered the letter which the commissionaire at the Carlton had given her. She could smell the savory tinge of his sweat in the air.
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