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. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... herself seemed lost, as it were, for a day or two. She never touched her usual needlework, the joy of her heart. And once when I tried the drawing-room door, I found it was locked. I never entered it again and did not want to. It gives me the horrors even to think of it. Then they sent for me home to England; ...
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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. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... herself seemed lost, as it were, for a day or two. She never touched her usual needlework, the joy of her heart. And once when I tried the drawing-room door, I found it was locked. I never entered it again and did not want to. It gives me the horrors even to think of it. Then they sent for me home to England; and the prospect of a change was most agreeable. The day came for my departure. Aunt stood at the door waving good-bye, and the old squirrel was scuttling up the sycamore as the fly drove off with me and my boxes, and a turn in the road soon hid the turreted house. And that is the last I ever saw of Aunt Rachel or the squirrel either, for you know she died just a year after, and left me the black ornaments and an ancestor or two from the drawing-room, and the place was sold. I often think over the happenings in that old house, and 'oh! how I pity whoever has to repose in the sheets Aunt Rachel hemmed! And oh! I hope I shall never again visit in a house where people mend the linen and leave it all in a heap on the drawing-room carpet. I feel a cold shiver even now when I think of it.... You'll never get half through this long history. But you wanted to know about it, so now you have it. I hope the account won't make you nervous! Scotland is and always was the land of romance. Quite different to England, you know: that's what is so nice about Scotland. Strange, is it not? that not until some time after my Aunt's death did I remember what had once occurred when I was a child, living with my mother in a street of the old town at Dresden. It came back to my mind one day. This was it: --One day I ran into the room where my mother's maid was folding and sorting out the house-linen on a large table. Somehow I managed to upset off the table a pile of..
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