Black Spirits and White (Paperback)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1877 Original Publisher: Bentley Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. It must not be supposed that Clevenal was so "remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow," as not to have enjoyed its share of the scandal about Sir Eupert's will. The Sydenham Spencers knew all about it; Mrs. Scarsdale, the naval officer's widow, talked it over with the vicar's wife; and it was a standing and substantial dish of gossip at every tea-table in Clevenal and Elcaster. Mr. and Mrs. Flint had rather a hard time of it in those days. "I really know nothing of the matter,' Mrs. Flint would say majestically. " What notions the present Lady Lowry may have taken into her head I cannot tell. Nor does it appear to me to be of much consequence." Upon which some curious and disappointed female friend would exclaim, " Oh, but you have been amongst them all up in London, Mrs. Flint You surely must know whether it's true that Lady Lowry has taken tospiritualism, and had all sorts of things revealed to her by a medium; and whether she attacked Miss Lowry before a whole roomful of people, and threatened to go to law with her; and whether Sir Cosmo hunted out a witness -- brought him back from Australia or America, some say -- to swear that Sir Rupert made a will just before he died, leaving Lowry Place and all the settled property to his son " AH of which was unspeakably annoying to Mrs. Flint. Her husband was not assailed so directly; or, if he were, he could intrench himself behind the professional etiquette which forbids a lawyer to ...