Madam Crowl's Ghost And The Dead Sexton - 9781984216717

On the evening before the tragedy came to light--trifles are always remembered after the catastrophe--a boy, returning along the margin of the mere, passed him by seated on a prostrate trunk of a tree, under the "bield" of a rock, counting silver money. His lean body and limbs were bent together, his knees were up to his chin, and his long fingers were telling the coins over hurriedly in the hollow of his other hand. He glanced at the boy, as the old English saying is, like "the devil looking over Lincoln." But a black and sour look from Mr. Crooke, who never had a smile for a child nor a greeting for a wayfarer, was nothing strange.

• | Author: Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, Mybook
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Jan 26, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 40 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1984216716
• | ISBN-13: 9781984216717