"
She looked keenly at him, and added, "I'm inclined to think, sirrah,
that you are impertinent."
"Very likely, ma'am," replied Tom, with great gravity. "I've a strong
notion of that myself. My father before me was impertinent, and his last
dying words to me were, 'Tom, I lay it as a last injunction upon you
to keep up the principles of our family, and always to show nothing but
impertinence to those who don't deserve respect.'"
With a face scarlet from indignation she immediately ordered her
carriage home, but before it had arrived there the intelligence from
another source had reached the family, together with the fact that the
Banshee had been heard by Mr. Goodwin's servants under Miss Alice's
window. Such, indeed, was the fact; and the report of the circumstance
had spread through half the parish before the hour of noon next day.
The removal of Alice sank heavily upon the heart of Harry Woodward; it
seemed to him as if she had gone out of his grasp, and from under the
influence of his eye, for, by whatever means he might accomplish it,
he was resolved to keep the deadly power of that eye upon her.
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