[The House by the Church-Yard by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]@TWC D-Link bookThe House by the Church-Yard CHAPTER XCVI 10/21
But the women had sat up beyond their hour, and saw me.
I got the papers, however, and returned, having warned them not to speak. I ventured out of doors but once more, and was took on a warrant for assaulting Sturk.
'Twas the women talking as they did excited the officer's suspicions. 'I have lain in prison since.
The date of my committal and discharge are, I suppose, there.' And so ends this rough draft, with the initials, I think, in his own hands, C.N., at the foot. At about half-past four o'clock Nutter came out to the Mills in a coach. He did not drive through Chapelizod; he was shy, and wished to feel his way a little.
So he came home privily by the Knockmaroon Park-gate.
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