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Doom Of The Griffiths

Auhtor: Elizabeth Gaskell

Language: english
Published: 1896

Genres:

horror,  gothic,  short story
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Review by Chandler, June 2010


Rating: (*****)
Copyright: Public Domain in the U.S.
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Excerpts from the Book 'Doom Of The Griffiths':

... let him live on, the loathing and scorn of his compatriots, and the victim of bitter remorse. The mark of Cain was upon him. But before he went forth-while ...
... have distinguished himself in those branches of literature which call for taste and imagination, rather than any exertion of reflection or judgment. ...
... partly from his devoting much time to studies of which she could understand nothing. She soon made him the father of a blooming little daughter, ...
... no visit, nor even a letter, till very near the time of his leaving school, and then he was astounded by the intelligence that his father was married ...
... in the bloom of youth, being a widow when his father married her. Her manners, to the Welsh lad, who had seen little of female grace among the families ...
... took more full possession of his mind when he had left college, and returned home to lead an idle and purposeless life. As the heir, there was no worldly ...
... onward. Often he would vehemently pursue some sylvan sport, till thought and feeling were lost in the violence of bodily exertion. Occasionally his ...
... complete harmony with the complexion. Owen was much attracted, while yet he was amused, by the evident coquetry the girl displayed, collecting around ...
... replete with drawers and cupboards, and brightly polished to a rich dark colour. In the farther part of the room Owen could at first distinguish ...
... elegances of life but then (when there was but one pewter-service in all Northumberland) there was nothing in Ellis Pritchard's mode of living that grated ...
... she mentioned any little circumstance which bore the slightest reference to Bodowen, her husband appeared chafed and uneasy, and at last avoided anything ...
... another as if it were your own offspring. Owen involuntarily caressed the affrighted child, and half smiled at the implication of his father's words. ...
... then he forced himself to arrange some plan for the future. He had not, in the passionate hurry of the moment, seen that his father had left the ...
... for, besides the dread of interruption, he was feverishly anxious to travel far that very night, if only Nest was capable of performing the journey. ...
... more enraged against his son than he had entered it, and returned home to hear the evil suggestions of the stepmother. He had heard a slight scuffle ...
... blood to his head in the stooping effort of lifting the stone the Squire had grappled with him before he rose up again, before he fully knew whose hands ...
... leaving his father unaided while yet a spark of life lingered-he removed the shrouding cover. The eyes looked into his with a dead stare. He closed the ...
... he's not lying in his own house-and there's a stir for a bit, and a search, and a wonder-and, by-and-by, the heir just steps in, as quiet as can be. ...
... chilly air met me as I stooped over him. I could fancy the spirit of our pure, blameless child guiding my father's safe over the paths of the sky ...
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