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

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and too experienced by this time to run violently down the steep hill that leads to ruin. So there was a method in h

n to enjoyment, and made his elegant hands lumpy at all the small joints, and turned them slowly into crippled claws. He grew stout when his exercise was interfered with, and ultimatel

nto dotage. Considering his bodily infirmities, his energies and his malignities, which were many and active, were marvellously little abated by time. So he went on to the close. When his temper was stirred, he cursed and swore in a way

ne, was cousin to the Captain, and his heir-at-law. But my uncle had lent him money on mortgage of his estates, and there h

ng richer than he, and would have liked to do him an ill turn

, on the whole, a very good man. He was now near fifty-grave, as beseeme

attendance at the funeral, and the expediency of his being on the spot to look after things at Wauling. The reasonableness of this

handsome youth-in shorts, cocked-hat and lace, was amazed at the bulk of the coffin which contained his