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A witty Gothic satire of melancholy, Romantic excess, literary fashion, and philosophical gloom.

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Nightmare Abbey is a compact comic novel set among gloomy rooms, eccentric guests, disappointed lovers, and fashionable despair. Peacock turns Gothic atmosphere and Romantic melancholy into sharp literary satire, with playful portraits of poets, philosophers, and intellectual fashions.

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Thomas Love Peacock died in 1866, and Nightmare Abbey was first published in 1818. These dates support the public-domain basis for the English source text used in this edition.

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Nightmare Abbey, a venerable family-mansion, in a highly picturesque state of semi-dilapidation, pleasantly situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens, at the verge of the county of Lincoln, had the honour to be the seat of Christopher Glowry, Esquire. This gentleman was naturally of an atrabilarious temperament, and much troubled with those phantoms of indigestion which are commonly called _blue devils_. He had been deceived in an early friendship: he had been crossed in love; and had offered his hand, from pique, to a lady, who accepted it from interest, and who, in so doing, violently tore asunder the bonds of a tried and youthful attachment. Her vanity was gratified by being the mistress of a very extensive, if not very lively, establishment; but all the springs of her sympathies were frozen. Riches she possessed, but that which enriches them, the participation of affection, was wanting. All that they could purchase for her became indifferent to her, because that which they could not purchase, and which was more valuable than themselves, she had, for their sake, thrown away. She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end--that riches, rightly used, are instruments of happiness, but are not in themselves happiness. In this wilful blight of her affections, she found them valueless as means: they had been the end to which she had immolated all her affections, and were now the only end that remained to her. She did not confess this to herself as a principle of action, but it operated through the medium of unconscious self-deception, and terminated in inveterate avarice. She laid on external things the blame of her mind's internal disorder, and thus became by degrees an accomplished scold.

She often went her daily rounds through a series of deserted apartments, every creature in the house vanishing at the creak of her shoe, much more at the sound of her voice, to which the nature of things affords no simile; for, as far as the voice of woman, when attuned by gentleness and love, transcends all other sounds in harmony, so far does it surpass all others in discord, when stretched into unnatural shrillness by anger and impatience.

Mr Glowry used to say that his house was no better than a spacious kennel, for every one in it led the life of a dog. Disappointed both in love and in friendship, and looking upon human learning as vanity, he had come to a conclusion that there was but one good thing in the world, _videlicet_, a good dinner; and this his parsimonious lady seldom suffered him to enjoy: but, one morning, like Sir Leoline in Christabel, 'he woke and found his lady dead,' and remained a very consolate widower, with one small child.

This only son and heir Mr Glowry had christened Scythrop, from the name of a maternal ancestor, who had hanged himself one rainy day in a fit of _toedium vitae_, and had been eulogised by a coroner's jury in the comprehensive phrase of _felo de se_; on which account, Mr Glowry held his memory in high honour, and made a punchbowl of his skull.

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him; and he was sent home like a well-threshed ear of corn, with nothing in his head: having finished his education to the high satisfaction of the master and fellows of his college, who had, in testimony of their approbation, presented him with a silver fish-slice, on which his name figured at the head of a laudatory inscription in some semi-barbarous dialect of Anglo-Saxonised Latin.

His fellow-students, however, who drove tandem and random in great perfection, and were connoisseurs in good inns, had taught him to drink deep ere he departed. He had passed much of his time with these choice spirits, and had seen the rays of the midnight lamp tremble on many a lengthening file of empty bottles. He passed his vacations sometimes at Nightmare Abbey, sometimes in London, at the house of his uncle, Mr Hilary, a very cheerful and elastic gentleman, who had married the sister of the melancholy Mr Glowry. The company that frequented his house was the gayest of the gay. Scythrop danced with the ladies and drank with the gentlemen, and was pronounced by both a very accomplished charming fellow, and an honour to the university.

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02CHAPTER I
  3. 03locked up in his seraglio? His experience is no precedent for a free
  4. 04state of society like that in which we live.'
  5. 05their minds are always locked up, and vanity and interest keep the
  6. 06key. I speak feelingly, Scythrop.'
  7. 07The main body of the building was divided into rooms of state,
  8. 08spacious apartments for feasting, and numerous bed-rooms for visitors,
  9. 09who, however, were few and far between.
  10. 10CHAPTER II
  11. 11CHAPTER III
  12. 12you have me do?'
  13. 13CHAPTER IV
  14. 14Scythrop, with as little hesitation, answered, 'Yes, sir.'
  15. 15coast: but what are fens to love? What are dykes and windmills to
  16. 16Marionetta?'
  17. 17action which is the co-natal prerogative of every rational being.'
  18. 18We are all slaves and puppets of a blind and unpathetic necessity.'
  19. 19CHAPTER V
  20. 20Non facciamo confusione,'
  21. 21THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  22. 22FATOUT
  23. 23THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  24. 24MARIONETTA
  25. 25THE REVEREND MR LARYNX
  26. 26THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  27. 27FATOUT
  28. 28THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  29. 29So it was. An invaluable fellow that, Mr Larynx--invaluable, Miss
  30. 30O'Carroll.
  31. 31MARIONETTA
  32. 32So I should judge, indeed. He seems to serve you as a walking memory,
  33. 33and to be a living chronicle, not of your actions only, but of your
  34. 34thoughts.
  35. 35THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  36. 36An excellent definition of the fellow, Miss O'Carroll,--excellent,
  37. 37upon my honour. Ha! ha! he! Heigho! Laughter is pleasant, but the
  38. 38exertion is too much for me.
  39. 39MR FLOSKY
  40. 40of the review; Marionetta inspected the novel, and Mr Listless the
  41. 41THE REVEREND MR LARYNX
  42. 42For a young man of fashion and family, Mr Listless, you seem to be of
  43. 43a very studious turn.
  44. 44THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  45. 45THE REVEREND MR LARYNX
  46. 46THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  47. 47And very often make the distress when the author has omitted it.
  48. 48MARIONETTA
  49. 49I shall try your patience some rainy morning, Mr Larynx; and Mr
  50. 50Listless shall recommend us the very newest new book, that every body
  51. 51reads.
  52. 52THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  53. 53You shall receive it, Miss O'Carroll, with all the gloss of novelty;
  54. 54fresh as a ripe green-gage in all the downiness of its bloom. A
  55. 55mail-coach copy from Edinburgh, forwarded express from London.
  56. 56MR FLOSKY
  57. 57THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  58. 58MR FLOSKY
  59. 59CHAPTER VI
  60. 60MARIONETTA
  61. 61You are very gallant, Mr Listless; and I dare say you are very fond of
  62. 62reading Dante.
  63. 63THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  64. 64MARIONETTA
  65. 65No, read him some evening, by all means. Were you ever in love, Mr
  66. 66Listless?
  67. 67THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  68. 68I assure you, Miss O'Carroll, never--till I came to Nightmare Abbey.
  69. 69I dare say it is very pleasant; but it seems to give so much trouble
  70. 70that I fear the exertion would be too much for me.
  71. 71MARIONETTA
  72. 72Shall I teach you a compendious method of courtship, that will give
  73. 73you no trouble whatever?
  74. 74THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  75. 75You will confer on me an inexpressible obligation. I am all impatience
  76. 76to learn it.
  77. 77MARIONETTA
  78. 78and fixing all his attention on the beautiful speaker, did not observe
  79. 79THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  80. 80You are pleased to be facetious, Miss O'Carroll. The lady would
  81. 81infallibly conclude that I was the greatest brute in town.
  82. 82MARIONETTA
  83. 83Far from it. She would say, perhaps, some people have odd methods of
  84. 84showing their affection.
  85. 85THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  86. 86But I should think, with submission--
  87. 87Did I not hear Mr Listless observe that Dante is becoming fashionable?
  88. 88THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  89. 89MR FLOSKY
  90. 90Having great wrath.
  91. 91MR FLOSKY
  92. 92This is no play upon words, but the sober sadness of veritable fact.
  93. 93THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  94. 94Tea, late dinners, and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the
  95. 95connection of ideas.
  96. 96MR FLOSKY
  97. 97THE REVEREND MR LARYNX
  98. 98Nothing can be more luminous.
  99. 99THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  100. 100And what has all that to do with Dante, and the blue devils?
  101. 101MR HILARY
  102. 102Not much, I should think, with Dante, but a great deal with the blue
  103. 103devils.
  104. 104MR FLOSKY
  105. 105MR TOOBAD
  106. 106That is, because the devil is come among us, and finds it for his
  107. 107interest to destroy all our perceptions of the distinctions of right
  108. 108and wrong.
  109. 109MARIONETTA
  110. 110I do not precisely enter into your meaning, Mr Flosky, and should be
  111. 111glad if you would make it a little more plain to me.
  112. 112MR FLOSKY
  113. 113MR HILARY
  114. 114THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  115. 115It seems to be the case with us at present, or we should not have
  116. 116interrupted Miss O'Carroll's music with this exceedingly dry
  117. 117conversation.
  118. 118MR FLOSKY
  119. 119I should be most happy if Miss O'Carroll would remind us that there
  120. 120are yet both music and sunshine--
  121. 121THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  122. 122In the voice and the smile of beauty. May I entreat the favour
  123. 123All were silent, and Marionetta sung:
  124. 124CHAPTER VII
  125. 125you positively believe there are such things as mermaids?'
  126. 126MR ASTERIAS
  127. 127Most assuredly; and tritons too.
  128. 128THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  129. 129What! things that are half human and half fish?
  130. 130MR ASTERIAS
  131. 131THE REVEREND MR LARYNX
  132. 132Nothing could be more logical.
  133. 133MR ASTERIAS
  134. 134Five years afterwards, some fishermen near Cadiz found in their nets a
  135. 135triton, or sea man; they spoke to him in several languages--
  136. 136THE REVEREND MR LARYNX
  137. 137They were very learned fishermen.
  138. 138MR HILARY
  139. 139They had the gift of tongues by especial favour of their brother
  140. 140fisherman, Saint Peter.
  141. 141THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  142. 142Is Saint Peter the tutelar saint of Cadiz?
  143. 143THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  144. 144FATOUT
  145. 145Mermaid! mer-r-m-m-aid! Ah! merry maid! Oui, monsieur! Yes, sir, very
  146. 146many. I vish dere vas von or two here in de kitchen--ma foi! Dey be
  147. 147all as melancholic as so many tombstone.
  148. 148THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  149. 149I mean, Fatout, an odd kind of human fish.
  150. 150FATOUT
  151. 151De odd fish! Ah, oui! I understand de phrase: ve have seen nothing
  152. 152else since ve left town--ma foi!
  153. 153THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  154. 154You seem to have a cup too much, sir.
  155. 155FATOUT
  156. 156Non, monsieur: de cup too little. De fen be very unwholesome, and I
  157. 157drink-a-de ponch vid Raven de butler, to keep out de bad air.
  158. 158THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  159. 159Fatout! I insist on your being sober.
  160. 160FATOUT
  161. 161THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  162. 162MR ASTERIAS
  163. 163THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  164. 164You are pleased to be severe upon our fashionable belles lettres.
  165. 165MR ASTERIAS
  166. 166THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  167. 167MARIONETTA
  168. 168MR FLOSKY
  169. 169A subtle question, raised among
  170. 170Those out o' their wits, and those i' the wrong:
  171. 171MR HILARY
  172. 172MARIONETTA
  173. 173as that between Macedon and Monmouth.
  174. 174CHAPTER VIII
  175. 175MARIONETTA
  176. 176I must apologise for intruding on you, Mr Flosky; but the interest
  177. 177which I--you--take in my cousin Scythrop--
  178. 178MR FLOSKY
  179. 179Pardon me, Miss O'Carroll; I do not take any interest in any person or
  180. 180thing on the face of the earth; which sentiment, if you analyse it,
  181. 181you will find to be the quintessence of the most refined philanthropy.
  182. 182MARIONETTA
  183. 183I will take it for granted that it is so, Mr Flosky; I am not
  184. 184conversant with metaphysical subtleties, but--
  185. 185MR FLOSKY
  186. 186MARIONETTA
  187. 187Indeed, Mr Flosky, it suggests no such notion to me. I have sought you
  188. 188for the purpose of obtaining information.
  189. 189No one ever sought me for such a purpose before.
  190. 190MARIONETTA
  191. 191I think, Mr Flosky--that is, I believe--that is, I fancy--that is, I
  192. 192imagine--
  193. 193MR FLOSKY
  194. 194MARIONETTA
  195. 195I assure you, Mr Flosky, I care no more about metaphysics than I do
  196. 196about the bank; and, if you will condescend to talk to a simple girl
  197. 197in intelligible terms--
  198. 198MR FLOSKY
  199. 199Say not condescend! Know you not that you talk to the most humble of
  200. 200men, to one who has buckled on the armour of sanctity, and clothed
  201. 201himself with humility as with a garment?
  202. 202MARIONETTA
  203. 203My cousin Scythrop has of late had an air of mystery about him, which
  204. 204gives me great uneasiness.
  205. 205MR FLOSKY
  206. 206MARIONETTA
  207. 207MARIONETTA
  208. 208Surely, Mr Flosky, you cannot suspect me of wishing to adopt or
  209. 209encourage such base and contemptible arts.
  210. 210MR FLOSKY
  211. 211MARIONETTA
  212. 212MR FLOSKY
  213. 213MARIONETTA
  214. 214Will you oblige me, Mr Flosky, by giving me a plain answer to a plain
  215. 215question?
  216. 216MR FLOSKY
  217. 217It is impossible, my dear Miss O'Carroll. I never gave a plain answer
  218. 218to a question in my life.
  219. 219MARIONETTA
  220. 220Do you, or do you not, know what is the matter with my cousin?
  221. 221MR FLOSKY
  222. 222MARIONETTA
  223. 223I see, Mr Flosky, that either you have no information, or are
  224. 224determined not to impart it; and I beg your pardon for having given
  225. 225you this unnecessary trouble.
  226. 226MR FLOSKY
  227. 227CHAPTER IX
  228. 228Scythrop was confounded. What was become of all her passion and her
  229. 229tears? Still kneeling, he kissed her hand with rueful timidity, and
  230. 230said, in most pathetic accents, 'Do you not love me, Marionetta?'
  231. 231still looked up incredulously. 'No, I tell you.'
  232. 232there are those in the world--'
  233. 233your designs, you ungenerous monster?'
  234. 234again, one of us will be married, and we might as well be dead, you
  235. 235know, Scythrop.'
  236. 236Scythrop was not exactly prepared for this decisive step; but he could
  237. 237only stammer out, 'Really, sir, you are too good;' and Mr Glowry
  238. 238departed to bring Mr Hilary to ratify the act.
  239. 239Marionetta blushed, and was silent. Scythrop was also silent for a
  240. 240time, and at length hesitatingly said, 'My dear sir, your goodness
  241. 241overpowers me; but really you are so precipitate.'
  242. 242devil is come among us sure enough, as Mr Toobad observes: I thought
  243. 243you and Marionetta were both of a mind.'
  244. 244to his tower.
  245. 245quarrel, nothing more. Whims, freaks, April showers. They will be
  246. 246blown over by to-morrow.'
  247. 247fools.'
  248. 248CHAPTER X
  249. 249A lady so richly clad as she,
  250. 250Beautiful exceedingly.'
  251. 251and not a little perplexed.
  252. 252CHAPTER XI
  253. 253The conversation that took place when the wine was in circulation, and
  254. 254the ladies were withdrawn, we shall report with our usual scrupulous
  255. 255fidelity.
  256. 256MR GLOWRY
  257. 257This is the only social habit that the disappointed spirit never
  258. 258unlearns.
  259. 259It is the only piece of academical learning that the finished educatee
  260. 260retains.
  261. 261It is the only objective fact which the sceptic can realise.
  262. 262It is the only styptic for a bleeding heart.
  263. 263It is the only trouble that is very well worth taking.
  264. 264It is the only key of conversational truth.
  265. 265It is the only antidote to the great wrath of the devil.
  266. 266It is the only symbol of perfect life. The inscription 'HIC NON
  267. 267BIBITUR' will suit nothing but a tombstone.
  268. 268MR GLOWRY
  269. 269MR CYPRESS
  270. 270MR GLOWRY
  271. 271Not a grain.
  272. 272SCYTHROP
  273. 273THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  274. 274SCYTHROP
  275. 275MR CYPRESS
  276. 276Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with
  277. 277his wife is absolved from all duty to his country. I have written an
  278. 278ode to tell the people as much, and they may take it as they list.
  279. 279SCYTHROP
  280. 280Do you suppose, if Brutus had quarrelled with his wife, he would have
  281. 281given it as a reason to Cassius for having nothing to do with his
  282. 282enterprise? Or would Cassius have been satisfied with such an excuse?
  283. 283MR FLOSKY
  284. 284Brutus was a senator; so is our dear friend: but the cases are
  285. 285different. Brutus had some hope of political good: Mr Cypress has
  286. 286none. How should he, after what we have seen in France?
  287. 287SCYTHROP
  288. 288MR CYPRESS
  289. 289MR FLOSKY
  290. 290MR HILARY
  291. 291MR TOOBAD
  292. 292MR FLOSKY
  293. 293The false knave, sir, is my honest friend; therefore, I beseech you,
  294. 294let him be countenanced. God forbid but a knave should have some
  295. 295countenance at his friend's request.
  296. 296MR TOOBAD
  297. 297MR CYPRESS
  298. 298MR HILARY
  299. 299MR CYPRESS
  300. 300MR HILARY
  301. 301You talk like a Rosicrucian, who will love nothing but a sylph, who
  302. 302does not believe in the existence of a sylph, and who yet quarrels
  303. 303with the whole universe for not containing a sylph.
  304. 304MR CYPRESS
  305. 305The mind is diseased of its own beauty, and fevers into false
  306. 306creation. The forms which the sculptor's soul has seized exist only in
  307. 307himself.
  308. 308MR FLOSKY
  309. 309MR HILARY
  310. 310MR TOOBAD
  311. 311How can we be cheerful with the devil among us!
  312. 312THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  313. 313How can we be cheerful when our nerves are shattered?
  314. 314MR FLOSKY
  315. 315that is growing too wise for its betters?
  316. 316SCYTHROP
  317. 317How can we be cheerful when our great general designs are crossed
  318. 318every moment by our little particular passions?
  319. 319MR CYPRESS
  320. 320How can we be cheerful in the midst of disappointment and despair?
  321. 321MR GLOWRY
  322. 322Let us all be unhappy together.
  323. 323MR HILARY
  324. 324Let us sing a catch.
  325. 325MR GLOWRY
  326. 326No: a nice tragical ballad. The Norfolk Tragedy to the tune of the
  327. 327Hundredth Psalm.
  328. 328MR HILARY
  329. 329I say a catch.
  330. 330MR GLOWRY
  331. 331I say no. A song from Mr Cypress.
  332. 332ALL
  333. 333A song from Mr Cypress.
  334. 334MR GLOWRY
  335. 335Admirable. Let us all be unhappy together.
  336. 336MR HILARY
  337. 337Now, I say again, a catch.
  338. 338THE REVEREND MR LARYNX
  339. 339I am for you.
  340. 340ME HILARY
  341. 341THE REVEREND MR LARYNX
  342. 342Agreed. I'll be Harry Gill, with the voice of three. Begin
  343. 343MR HILARY AND THE REVEREND MR LARYNX
  344. 344The bowl goes trim: the moon doth shine:
  345. 345And our ballast is old wine.
  346. 346Mr Cypress, having his ballast on board, stepped, the same evening,
  347. 347into his bowl, or travelling chariot, and departed to rake seas and
  348. 348rivers, lakes and canals, for the moon of ideal beauty.
  349. 349CHAPTER XII
  350. 350MR FLOSKY
  351. 351By far the greater number, to a very great degree.
  352. 352THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  353. 353Really, that is very alarming!
  354. 354MR FLOSKY
  355. 355THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  356. 356I am happy to say, I never have, for one.
  357. 357THE REVEREND MR LARYNX
  358. 358We have such high authority for ghosts, that it is rank scepticism to
  359. 359disbelieve them. Job saw a ghost, which came for the express purpose
  360. 360of asking a question, and did not wait for an answer.
  361. 361THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  362. 362Because Job was too frightened to give one.
  363. 363THE REVEREND MR LARYNX
  364. 364MR TOOBAD
  365. 365Saying, The devil is come among you, having great wrath.
  366. 366MR FLOSKY
  367. 367MR HILARY
  368. 368Jolly ghosts, and no doubt all friars. A similar party took possession
  369. 369of the cellar of M. Swebach, the painter, in Paris, drank his wine,
  370. 370and threw the empty bottles at his head.
  371. 371THE REVEREND MR LARYNX
  372. 372An atrocious act.
  373. 373MR FLOSKY
  374. 374THE REVEREND MR LARYNX
  375. 375MR FLOSKY
  376. 376MR HILARY
  377. 377MR FLOSKY
  378. 378THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS
  379. 379And have proved, I doubt not, 'palpable to feeling as to sight.'
  380. 380MR FLOSKY
  381. 381CHAPTER XIII
  382. 382doubt there is a lady up stairs.'
  383. 383place, and make her escape.'
  384. 384a lady to jump down.'
  385. 385Mr Glowry took the key, searched every nook of the tower, and
  386. 386returned.
  387. 387that demure visage of yours. What was that lumbering sound I heard
  388. 388before you opened the door?'
  389. 389which I moved on rising to let you in.'
  390. 390not a tenth part.'
  391. 391surfaces produce two voices when nobody speaks? I heard two voices,
  392. 392and one was feminine; feminine, sir: what say you to that?'
  393. 393voice I heard.'
  394. 394love--whom you profess to love, sir--'
  395. 395partly cartilaginous. This internal canal is--'
  396. 396I expect--'
  397. 397Marionetta--'
  398. 398do, or what I am going to do, or what any one is going to do; for all
  399. 399this is incomprehensible.'
  400. 400if you will but have the goodness to leave us alone.'
  401. 401incident belong?'
  402. 402from concave surfaces.'
  403. 403Mogul has taken lodgings at Kensington, and the external part of the
  404. 404ear is a cartilaginous funnel.'
  405. 405here?'
  406. 406came here?'
  407. 407chosen a husband for you, you thought proper to run away from him; and
  408. 408now, to all appearance, you have run away to him.'
  409. 409first time in our lives.'
  410. 410him.'
  411. 411CHAPTER XIV
  412. 412Scythrop was still in this position when Raven entered to announce
  413. 413that dinner was on table.
  414. 414Raven sighed. 'Something is the matter,' said Raven: 'but man is born
  415. 415to trouble.'
  416. 416but man is born to trouble!'
  417. 417There is nobody left but Mr Asterias and his son, and they are going
  418. 418to-night.'
  419. 419Miss O'Carroll say any thing?'
  420. 420thing under the sun. You may as well dine first, and be miserable
  421. 421afterwards.'
  422. 422therefore, bring me----'
  423. 423writing for your satisfaction. The crisis of my fate is come: the
  424. 424might have found it very feasible in his lodgings at Kensington; but
  425. 425it will not do in Lincolnshire. Will you have Miss Toobad?'
  426. 426make a cool, calm choice, and I will exert myself in your behalf.'
  427. 427either.'
  428. 428irresistibly.'
  429. 429cannot choose either. I am doomed to be the victim of eternal
  430. 430disappointments; and I have no resource but a pistol.'
  431. 431little patience--but a week's patience; and it shall be.'
  432. 432Mr Glowry ordered his travelling chariot, and departed from the abbey.
  433. 433CHAPTER XV
  434. 434fast.'
  435. 435Scythrop impatiently broke the seals. The contents were these:
  436. 436CELINDA FLOSKY
  437. 437MARIONETTA LISTLESS
  438. 438Scythrop tore both the letters to atoms, and railed in good set terms
  439. 439against the fickleness of women.
  440. 440maidens in England.'
  441. 441bow.'
  442. 442almost eight.'
  443. 443THE END

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