He walked with bent head. He—he has rather a poor opinion of his contemporaries. His red hair marked him, cut short into a round shape that had the texture of a Brillo pad. Walpole's order to that effect—but not before. “So Brendon and I,” he said, “have been troubled with the same fears. She turned back to Gerald, holding out her hand. Little things, almost impalpable, had happened to justify that doubt; something in his manner had belied his words. In a moment his grasp grew weaker. In a fit of despondency, superinduced by drunkenness, he made away with himself; and when the body was discovered, after a lapse of some months, such was the impression produced by the spectacle —such the alarm occasioned by the crazy state of the building, and, above all, by the terror inspired by strange and unearthly noises heard during the night, which were, of course, attributed to the spirit of the suicide, that the place speedily enjoyed the reputation of being haunted, and was, consequently, entirely abandoned. The assemblage was for the most part, if not altogether, composed of persons to whom vice in all its aspects was too familiar to present much of novelty, in whatever form it was exhibited.
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