There was scant social life on the Sha-mien aside from masculine foregatherings, little that interested him. A skeleton was propped against the mantelpiece. And they never talked of anything at all, never discussed, never even encouraged gossip. I thought that I was marrying Meysey Hill, not that creature. Descending the hollow, or rather excavation,—for it was an old disused clay-pit, at the bottom of which the cottage was situated,—he speedily succeeded in arousing the ancient sibyl, and having committed Edgeworth Bess to her care, with a promise of an abundant reward in case she watched diligently over her safety, and attended to her comforts till his return,—to all which Black Mary readily agreed,—he departed with a heart lightened of half its load. He was into the passage in time to see her slip into another chamber at the end. ‘I am extremely displeased. I was one of the few. She looked at me as though I were some unclean thing, as though my soul were weighted with every sin in the calendar. And, if it had not been for a taste for plotting, which was continually getting him into scrapes, he might have been accounted a respectable member of society.
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