She was saying good-bye to childhood and home, and her making; she was going out into the great, multitudinous world; this time there would be no returning. “This ain’t no place for you. The necessity which had previously existed of leaving the ghastly evidence of the murderous deed undisturbed,—the presence of the mangled corpse,—the bustle of the inquest, at which her attendance was required,—all these circumstances produced a harrowing effect upon the young girl's imagination. The thief-taker's throat was bound up with thick folds of linen, and his face had a ghastly and cadaverous look, which communicated an undefinable and horrible expression to his glances. A slow heavy thumping started up in Melusine’s chest, and she scarcely took in the astonished silence in those present in the room. She found she was trembling at his nearness and full of a thrilling dread that he might touch her. There were the burnt papers still in the grate. He was a just man, and he did not care to start any thunder which was not based upon fairness. And she felt that if she went home it was imperative to pay. ‘Lord,’ he uttered, glancing about with a disparaging eye.
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