Ghostly Tales [S.S. Col.] by Fitzclarence Wilhelmina

Author:Fitzclarence, Wilhelmina [Fitzclarence, Wilhelmina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Short Stories, Fiction, Fantasy, Ghost Stories, Horror, Gothic
Publisher: gothictexts.wordpress.com
Published: 1896-01-01T03:00:00+00:00

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As soon as the three ladies reached home, Esther’s scarcely-restrained wrath broke forth, and both her words and gestures were so violent, and so alarming, that Mrs. Brandreth, who was wofully put out, as well as fatigued, felt she could really bear no more; so she went off into hysterics, while Reala, feeling very guilty, after putting the sobbing lady under the charge of Mary Hervey, watched her opportunity, and slipped upstairs (not a minute too soon,) for Esther, with what intention it is difficult to say, ran up after her. Reala, however, after gaining her apartment, locked and barred her door, leaving Esther in anything but speechless indignation outside.

This state of things could not go on, of course, and Mrs. Brandreth became, as she expressed it, “worried to death!” So miserable was she at Reala’s wrong behaviour, and so terrified at Esther’s ungoverned rage, that she refused further invitations, and all gaieties came to an end.

“And all this,” groaned the poor lady, “for a man who, my experience teaches me, is a scoundrel, ‘backward in coming forward’ to either of them.”

“Oh! Esther!” she exclaimed, as that indignant young woman sat one day (as was her wont at this time) scowling at her mother, from the corner of the room, see-sawing herself backwards and forwards in her chair: “Have you no womanly pride, thus to betray your love for a man who shews so evidently that he doesn’t want it?”

At these words Esther looked as though she could have killed her mother. Gnawing her lips until they nearly bled, she answered sullenly: “He loved me first, and, mark me, he shall love me again!”

Her mother said no more, feeling it would be only a waste of breath.

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