exclaimed Luke, grasping the shoulder of the man of graves with such force as nearly to annihilate him. "Speak, or I will strangle you. She died, you say, in her sleep?"
"She did so," replied the sexton, shaking off Luke's hold.ugg boots
"And was it to tell me that I had a mother's murder to avenge, that you brought me to the tomb of her destroyer--when he is beyond the reach of my vengeance?"
Luke exhibited so much frantic violence of manner and gesture, that the sexton entertained some little apprehension that his intellects were unsettled by the shock of the intelligence. It was, therefore, in what he intended for a soothing tone that he attempted to solicit his grandson's attention.
"I will hear nothing more," interrupted Luke, and ugg boots outlet
the vaulted chamber rang with his passionate lamentations. "Am I the sport of this mocking fiend?" cried he, "to whom my agony is derision--my despair a source of enjoyment--beneath whose withering glance my spirit shrinks--who, with half-expressed insinuations, tortures my soul, awakening fancies that goad me on to dark and desperate deeds? Dead mother! upon thee I call. If in thy grave thou canst hear the cry of thy most wretched son, yearning to avenge thee--answer me, if thou hast the power. Let me have some token of the truth or falsity of these wild suppositions, that I may wrestle against this demon. But no," added he, in accents of despair, "no ear listens to me, save his to whom my wretchedness is food for mockery."
"Could the dead hear thee, thy mother might do so," returned the sexton. "She lies within this space."
Luke staggered back, as if struck by a sudden shot. He spoke not, but fell with a violent shock against a pile of coffins, at which he caught for support.
"What have I done?" he exclaimed, recoiling.
"Thoughts should not always find utterance, else we might often endanger our own safety, and that of others."
"An idle subterfuge--and, from you, worse than idle. I will have an answer, yea or nay. Was it poison--was it steel?"
"Enough--she died."
"No, it is not enough. When? Where?"uggs sale
"In her sleep--in her bed."
"Why, that was natural."
A wrinkling smile crossed the sexton's brow.
"What means that horrible gleam of laughter?"
Fer.
Let her have lights enough.
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Duch.
What witchcraft doth he practise, that he hath left
A dead hand here?
---Duchess of Malfy.