He
seized, for instance, the person next him, unfortunate Dr. Sombre, and
after squeezing his arm until it became too painful to bear, he ground
his teeth, looked into his face, and asked, "Do you think--would you
swear--that--that--ay--that there is a God?" Then, looking at Corbet,
and trying to recollect himself, he exclaimed, "Villain, demon,
devil;" and he then struck or rather throttled the Doctor, as he sat
beside him. They succeeded, however, in composing him, but his eyes were
expressive of such wildness and horror and blood-shot frenzy, that one
or two of them sat close to him, for the purpose of restraining his
tendency to violence.
Lady Gourlay, on hearing that Fenton was not her son, wept bitterly,
exclaiming, "Alas! I am twice made childless." But Lucy, who had
awakened out of the deathlike stupor of misery which had oppressed her
all the morning, now became conscious of the terrible disclosures which
old Corbet was making; and on hearing that Fenton was, or rather
had been, her brother, she flew to him, and on looking at his pale,
handsome, but lifeless features, she threw her arms around him, kissed
his lips in an agony of sorrow, and exclaimed, "And is it thus we meet,
my brother! No word to recognize your sister? No glance of that eye,
that is closed forever, to welcome me to your heart? Oh! miserable fate,
my brother! We meet in death.
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