Baptist Kettleby (for so was the Master named) was a "goodly portly man, and a
corpulent," whose fair round paunch bespoke the affection he entertained for
good liquor and good living. I bound him up good and tight,
stuffed his mouth with a length of rope, taped it shut. Forgive my
daring. Edgeworth Bess wore a scarlet tabby negligée,—a sort of undress, or sack, then
much in vogue,—which suited her to admiration, and upon her head had what
was called a fly-cap, with richly-laced lappets. In Singapore that had been her only dissipation: a dozen pairs of silk
stockings. Wood, who appeared to be
collecting her energies for a terrible explosion, "in the hope that they may prove
acceptable. I heard only after it was all over. 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. Mr. All
the rest of his existence was subordinate to this pursuit; he lived for it, worked
for it, kept himself in training for it. The imbecile. “I do not know any one of that name. One don't often get sich a
vindfal as the Markis——"
"Or such a customer as Mr.
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