An Old Family Legend, Or, One Husband And Two Marriages : a Romance V. 1
The book An Old Family Legend, Or, One Husband And Two Marriages : a Romance V. 1 was written by author Brewer, James Norris, Fl. 1799-1829 Here you can read free online of An Old Family Legend, Or, One Husband And Two Marriages : a Romance V. 1 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is An Old Family Legend, Or, One Husband And Two Marriages : a Romance V. 1 a good or bad book?
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The cry did not arise from the immediate neighbourhood of Cuthberf, but seemed echoed from a distance by the *' low-browed vaults " which fame re- ported to lie beneath the hall of justice. '' Accursed hour !" exclaimed Cuthberf, after the first moment of horror; "to what a sad employment have I devoted the blossom of my youth ! Yet sure/' continued he, wiping a cold drop from his brow, " mv fancv, tainted bv the gloom of this solitary and ominous place, beguiles the sobriety of my reason ? I h...ave heard that wretches doomed to en- ccHinter;, in midnight, and all alone, the mysterious AN OLD FAMILY LEGEND. Ill} n"iysterious terrors of some solemn chan- cel or excavated burial-place, have, in the temporary phrenzy of imagination, thought they beheld sirange sights, and heard dismal and unusual rnoans^ while all was free and quiet, except their own distempered fears. It must be so. Avaunt, superstition ! and take thy pigmy terrors with thee.'* He paced in a quick step along the gallery, and trod with strength, to assure himself that it was only his own footstep which sounded.
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