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Questo libro di storia potrebbe contenere numerosi refusi e parti di testo mancanti. Solitamente gli acquirenti hanno la possibilita di scaricare gratuitamente una copia scansionata del libro originale (senza refusi) direttamente dall'editore. Il libro e Non illustrato. 1877 edition. Estratto: ...Clough trembled at the mention of the inquest. Nanny was still upstairs, for it was yet early, and it was the practice of the household to lie late a-bed in the morning. Clough shouted to her from the foot of the staircase, for he did not dare to mount them, so full of coward fears was he. Nanny answered sleepily from her attic, and he called still louder. 'Nanny, ' he cried, 'we wanten yo' down here. Th' oud maister's been killed on th' railroad. Dost hear? Th' engine hns run over th' maister, and killed him stone dead. Mak' a' th' haste yo' can.' It seemed to Clough as if all the echoes of the empty house were mocking him, and he hurried back to the welcome companionship of the other men, although the dead formed one of them.' Before many minutes had passed, Nanny' stood in the midst of them, scared and bewildered, looking with terror and pity upon the corpse of her dead master, and asking a multitude of eager questions, which were left to Clough to answer. His story ran that he had heard Mr. Lloyd leave the house, and thinking it later than it was, he had himself started out with the intention of seeking for Trevor's lost half-sovereign before the traffic of the day began; but that upon nearing the crossing he had seen Mr. Lloyd on the spot before him; and at the same instant, before he had time to do more than throw up his arms and shout in warning, the engine was down upon him. dough's face was still blanched, and his voice shook while speaking; but no suspicion could rest upon him. Before he had quite finished, the village doctor and a policeman arrived, and he had to repeat his tale to them. It was decided, after some consultation, that the house must be..