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until the loss which we all deplore察I was gravelled!an expression 

which your Ladyship察moving in the higher circles察will be so good 

as   to  consider     tantamount      to  knocked     over。   Small    likewise!a 

name by which I refer to another party察a friend of mine that your 

Ladyship   is   not  acquainted   with!got   to   be   so   close   and   double´ 

faced   that at  times it  wasn¨t  easy  to  keep   one¨s   hands   off   his   ed。 

However察what with the exertion of my humble abilities察and what 

with the help of a mutual friend by the name of Mr Tony Weevle 

who     is  of  a  high   aristocratic    turn察  and    has   your   Ladyship¨s 

portrait always hanging up in his room察I have now reasons for an 

apprehension察as to which I come to put your Ladyship upon your 

guard。 First察will your Ladyship allow me to ask you whether you 

have     had    any    strange    visitors   this   morning拭     I  don¨t    mean 

fashionable       visitors察 but    such    visitors察  for  instance察   as   Miss 

Barbary¨s old servant察or as a person without the use of his lower 

extremities察carried upstairs similarly to a Guy拭院

    ^No 院

    ^Then I assure your Ladyship that such visitors have been here 

and have been received here。 Because I saw them at the door察and 



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waited at the corner of the square till they came out察and took half´ 

an´hour¨s turn afterwards to avoid them。 ̄ 

    ^What      have   I  to  do  with    that察 or  what    have    you拭  I  do   not 

understand you。 What do you mean拭院

    ^Your Ladyship察I come to put you on   your  guard。   There   may 

be no occasion for it。 Very well。 Then I have only done my best to 

keep   my   promise   to   Miss   Summerson。   I   strongly   suspect   from 

what Small has dropped察and from what we have corkscrewed out 

of him that those letters I was to have brought to your Ladyship 

were not destroyed when I supposed they were。 That if there was 

anything   to   be   blown   upon察  it   is   blown   upon。   That   the   visitors   I 

have alluded to have been here this morning to make money of it。 

And that the money is made察or making。 ̄ 

    Mr Guppy picks up his hat and rises。 

    ^Your   Ladyship察  you   know   best察  whether   there¨s   anything   in 

what   I   say察  or   whether   there¨s   nothing。   Something   or   nothing察  I 

have acted up to Miss Summerson¨s wishes in letting things alone察

and in undoing what I had begun to do察as   far  as possible察  that¨s 

sufficient   for   me。   In   case   I   should   be   taking   a   liberty   in   putting 

your Ladyship on your guard when there¨s no necessity for it察you 

will   endeavour察  I   should   hope察  to   outlive   my   presumption察  and   I 

shall   endeavour   to   outlive   your   disapprobation。   I   now   take   my 

farewell of your Ladyship察and assure you that there¨s no danger 

of your ever being waited on by me again。 ̄ 

    She   scarcely   acknowledges   these   parting   words   by   any   look察

but when he has been gone a little while she rings her bell。 

    ^Where is Sir Leicester拭院

    Mercury   reports   that   he   is   at   present   shut   up   in   the   library察

alone。 



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    ^Has Sir Leicester had any visitors this morning拭院

    Several on business。 Mercury proceeds to a description of them察

which has been anticipated by Mr Guppy。 Enough此he may go。 

    So All is broken down。 Her name is in these many mouths察her 

husband knows his wrongs察her shame will be published!may be 

spreading       while   she    thinks   about    it!and      in  addition    to   the 

thunderbolt so long foreseen by her察so unforeseen by him察she is 

denounced by an invisible accuser as the murderess of her enemy。 

    Her enemy he was察and she has often察often察often察wished him 

dead。 Her enemy he is察even in his grave。 This dreadful accusation 

comes upon her察like a new torment at his lifeless hand。 And when 

she   recalls   how  she   was   secretly  at  his door  that   night察  and   how 

she   may  be   represented   to   have   sent   her   favourite   girl   away察  so 

soon     before察  merely     to  release    herself    from    observation察    she 

shudders as if the hangman¨s hands were at her neck。 

    She has thrown herself upon the floor察and lies with her hair all 

wildly scattered察and   her  face buried  in  the   cushions   of   a   couch。 

She   rises   up察  hurries   to   and   fro察  flings   herself   down   again察  and 

rocks   and moans。   The   horror   that   is   upon   her察  is   unutterable。   If 

she really were the murderess察it could hardly be察for the moment察

more intense。 

    For察  as   her   murderous      perspective察    before   the   doing    of  the 

deed察  however   subtle   the   precautions   for   its   commission察  would 

have been closed up by a gigantic dilatation of the hateful figure察

preventing   her   from   seeing   any   consequences   beyond   it察  and   as 

those     consequences       would    have    rushed     in察 in  an   unimagined 

flood察the moment the figure was laid low!which always happens 

when a murder is done察so察now she sees that when he used to be 

on   the   watch   before   her察  and   she   used   to   think察   if  some   mortal 



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stroke would but fall on this old man and take him from my way 院

it was but wishing that all he held against her in his hand might be 

flung to the winds察and chance´sown in many places。 So察too察with 

the wicked relief she has felt in his death。 What was his death but 

the keystone of a gloomy arch removed察and now the arch begins 

to   fall  in  a  thousand      fragments察    each    crushing    and    mangling 

piecemeal 

    Thus察  a   terrible  impression   steals   upon   and   overshadows   her察

that     from      this    pursuer察     living    or    dead!obdurate           and 

imperturbable   before   her   in   his   well´remembered   shape察  or   not 

more  obdurate and   imperturbable  in   his   coffin´bed察there   is   no 

escape   but   in   death。   Hunted察  she   flies。   The   complication   of   her 

shame察  her   dread察     remorse察   and   misery察   overwhelms       her   at   its 

height察  and   even   her   strength   of   self´reliance   is   overturned   and 

whirled away察like a leaf before a mighty wind。 

    She hurriedly addresses these lines to her husband察seals察and 

leaves them on her table。 



    ^If I am sought for察or accused of察his murder察believe that I am 

wholly innocent。 Believe no other good of me察for I am innocent of 

nothing else that you have heard察or will hear察laid to my charge。 

He prepared me on that fatal night察for his disclosure of my guilt to 

you。 After he had left me察I went out察on pretence of walking in the 

garden      where    I  sometimes   walk察  but   really   to   follow    him察  and 

make   one   last   petition   that   he   would   not   protract   the   dreadful 

suspense on which I have been   racked by  him察  you  do not  know 

how long察but would mercifully strike next morning。 

    ^I found his house dark and silent。 I rang twice at his door察but 

there was no reply察and I came home。 



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