This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ... of fiction, that Mrs. O'Brien was in bed. At all events she was, fiction or no fiction; and all her servants were in bed also, when there came a terrible knocking at the door. Not a soul moved. Mrs. O'Brien thought that it was the woman who lived next door, and who could upset a decision of Lord Ponsance's by getting ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ... of fiction, that Mrs. O'Brien was in bed. At all events she was, fiction or no fiction; and all her servants were in bed also, when there came a terrible knocking at the door. Not a soul moved. Mrs. O'Brien thought that it was the woman who lived next door, and who could upset a decision of Lord Ponsance's by getting into her husband's house. The cook thought that it was fire, but having smelt down the stairs and found no smell, thought that it was a drunken man who would leave off soon. The rest of the servants slept the sleep of the just, until the fourth round of the knocking. Then the servants began to think that something was the matter. The second housemaid at once departed through the dormer window to the top of the house, and wandered about on the roofs of the neighbouring houses in her nightgown, until she was dexterously rescued by a fireescape. The cook lay in bed and yelled, but the page (a singularly clever boy) put on his trousers and thought of opening the door. He not only thought of doing it, but he did it. In front of it he found Gran by Dixon. "Confound you, you young monkey, go and rouse your mistress, and tell her that Mr. Granby Dixon is here and must see her at once--instantly." Granby went into the dining-room, and the boy went upstairs. In three minutes Mrs. O'Brien was with him. She spoke first: --"Granby, are they off?" "No." "Thank God!" "Let us thank God when we are through it. What new thing does Oakshott know to-day?" She bared her arm to him, --there was ecchymosis all over it. "The devil!" said Granby. "Arthur has beaten my daughter savagely to-day, and I got these wounds in defending her. Oh God! Granby--save us, save us! We have no hope but in you. I only came...
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