Inhaltsangabe
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.1874 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX. "AS WATER GRASS TO HERDS, IN THE JUNE DAYS." OR weeks--nay, for a whole month and three days--did Tryphena lie 'twixt life and death. Jacob Fowke's body having been examined by Dr. Sprague wrhere it hung--that was on the beam, concerning the stoutness and antecedents whereof he made remark to Mr. Latchet on the preceding morning (Aunt Rachel sent off to the doctor at once, likewise wrote to the coroner at Robert's suggestion, he being well aware of the evilness of men's imaginations, and the difficulty of establishing innocence once aspersed)--these ceremonials being gone through with, I say, the corpse was removed after dark and in strict secrecy--the Tapps alone knew what was doing--to the Shobdon Arms, there to await the inquest which would take place on the morrow, and which resulted in a verdict of "Committed suicide whilst in a state of unsound mind;" it being quite impossible, looking things well in the face, notably the depressed state of public affairs, the severity of the weather and prevalence of blight last autumn, for one dozen Godfearing and highly-respected rate and taxpayers to take any other view. Two o'clock on Monday was the time fixed for the funeral, Aunt Rachel being feverishly anxious to get it over. "Nothing will go right till that's done with," said she to Robert, as they sat and talked on Sunday evening of things past, present, and to come; " I dare say you think me unfeeling, but I know it." And Robert said soberly that he trusted next week would bring a change;--he was thinking of one who lay sick and grievously tormented in a darkened room upstairs. But the voice that committed Jacob's body to the grave was not Acts Latchet's. He had left Coatham--gone no man knew whither, some said to London, others to Van Diemen's ...
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