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1"On to the leads; will you come and see the view from thence?" I followed still, up a very narrow staircase to the
2attics, and thence by a ladder and through a trap-door to the roof of the hall. I was now on a level with the crow
3colony, and could see into their nests. Leaning over the battlements and looking far down, I surveyed the grounds laid
4out like a map: the bright and velvet lawn closely girdling the grey base of the mansion; the field, wide as a park,
5dotted with its ancient timber; the wood, dun and sere, divided by a path visibly overgrown, greener with moss than the
6trees were with foliage; the church at the gates, the road, the tranquil hills, all reposing in the autumn day's sun;
7the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white. No feature in the scene was extraordinary,
8but all was pleasing. When I turned from it and repassed the trap-door, I could scarcely see my way down the ladder; the
9attic seemed black as a vault compared with that arch of blue air to which I had been looking up, and to that sunlit
10scene of grove, pasture, and green hill, of which the hall was the centre, and over which I had been gazing with
11delight. Mrs. Fairfax stayed behind a moment to fasten the trap-door; I, by dint of groping, found the outlet from the
12attic, and proceeded to descend the narrow garret staircase. I lingered in the long passage to which this led,
13separating the front and back rooms of the third storey: narrow, low, and dim, with only one little window at the far
14end, and looking, with its two rows of small black doors all shut, like a corridor in some Bluebeard's castle. While I
15paced softly on, the last sound I expected to hear in so still a region, a laugh, struck my ear. It was a curious laugh;
16distinct, formal, mirthless. I stopped: the sound ceased, only for an instant; it began again, louder: for at first,
17though distinct, it was very low. It passed off in a clamorous peal that seemed to wake an echo in every lonely chamber;
18though it originated but in one, and I could have pointed out the door whence the accents issued. "Mrs. Fairfax!" I
19called out: for I now heard her descending the great stairs. "Did you hear that loud laugh? Who is it?" "Some of the
20servants, very likely," she answered: "perhaps Grace Poole." "Did you hear it?" I again inquired. "Yes, plainly: I often
21hear her: she sews in one of these rooms. Sometimes Leah is with her; they are frequently noisy together." The laugh was
22repeated in its low, syllabic tone, and terminated in an odd murmur. "Grace!" exclaimed Mrs. Fairfax. I really did not
23expect any Grace to answer; for the laugh was as tragic, as preternatural a laugh as any I ever heard; and, but that it
24was high noon, and that no circumstance of ghostliness accompanied the curious cachinnation; but that neither scene nor
25season favoured fear, I should have been superstitiously afraid. However, the event showed me I was a fool for
26entertaining a sense even of surprise. The door nearest me opened, and a servant came out,--a woman of between thirty
27and forty; a set, square-made figure, red-haired, and with a hard, plain face: any apparition less romantic or less
28ghostly could scarcely be conceived. "Too much noise, Grace," said Mrs. Fairfax. "Remember directions!" Grace curtseyed
29silently and went in. "She is a person we have to sew and assist Leah in her housemaid's work," continued the widow;
30"not altogether unobjectionable in some points, but she does well enough. By-the-bye, how have you got on with your new
31pupil this morning?" The conversation, thus turned on Adèle, continued till we reached the light and cheerful region
32below. Adèle came running to meet us in the hall, exclaiming-- "Mesdames, vous êtes servies!" adding, "J'ai bien faim,
33moi!" We found dinner ready, and waiting for us in Mrs. Fairfax's room.
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