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NIGHTMARE ABBEY.
CHAP. XIV.
Scythrop was still in this position, when Raven entered to announce that dinner was on table.
"I cannot come," said Scythrop.
Raven sighed. "Something is the matter," said Raven: "but man is born to trouble."
"Leave me," said Scythrop: "go, and croak elsewhere."
"Thus it is," said Raven. "Five-and-twenty years have I lived in Nightmare Abbey, and now all the reward of my affection is—Go, and croak elsewhere. I have danced you on my knee, and fed you with marrow."
