Excerpt from Bessy Rane, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel
For a wonder, the dinner-table at Dallory Hall was a solitary one. Solitary, in so far as that only the family then at home sat at it. Madam headed it; Mr. North was at the foot; Richard on one side; Matilda on the other. Scarcely a word was being spoken. Madam was in one of her imperious humours indeed, when was she out of them? - the servants waited in silence.
Suddenly there rang out a loud crashing peal from the hall-bell. Richard, who was already beginning to be disturbed by vague fears of what his ex-workman's hostilities might bring them to do, sat back in his chain absently, and turned his head.
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