J.S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5

Pays the Cap

atson, of Haddlestone; and to enable you to

th and strength permitted, was a scamp of the active, intriguing sort; and spent his days and nights in sowing his wild oats, of which he seemed to have an inexhausti

had never reached that rank in the army list. He had quitted the service in 1766, at the age of twenty-five; immediately previous to

emained of his shattered affections; and he lived and enjoyed himself very much in his old way, upo

was a nunnery, in which, as pensioner, resided Miss O'Neill, or as she

d looking, with that style of features which is termed potato; and in figure she was a little too plump, and rather short.

was the vagrant class of each country that chiefly visited the other in old times; and a handsome v

sanctuary; and for some sufficient reason, I suppose

to London. I believe few wives have ever cried more in a given time than did that poor, dumpy, potato-fa

her out of her wits with oaths a

tinctively she hated him; and he hated her in return, often threatened to put her out of the house, and sometimes even to kick her out of the window. And whenever a wet day confined him to the house, or the st

inal position. Perhaps he thought that there must be somebody there,