The two aunts of these
young ladies lived for many years in the dower house upon my estate in
Hampshire. He it was
who formed the grand design of a robber corporation, of which he should be the
sole head and director, with the right of delivering those who concealed their
booty, or refused to share it with him, to the gallows. It was a sort of cooking-room, with an
immense fire-place flanked by a couple of cauldrons, and was called Jack
Ketch's Kitchen, because the quarters of persons executed for treason were there
boiled by the hangman in oil, pitch, and tar, before they were affixed on the city
gates, or on London Bridge. Forgetting the dark thoughts of his last brush with the girl, he dropped the
dagger back in his pocket, quickened his pace, and went back into the house to
look for his hostess. Blest with a fond
husband, surrounded by every comfort, you have never been assailed by the
horrible temptations to which misery has exposed me. ‘This is
not a place for a man. Did he not look for her in
the morning when she entered—come very quickly to her? She thought of him
as she had last seen him looking down the length of the laboratory to see her go. Don’t think it was anything better than fever—or a bit beautiful. These thoughts, however, came to a broken end.
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