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EUGENE ARAM.
CHAPTER X.
GRIEF IN A RUFFIAN.—THE CHAMBER OF EARLY DEATH.—A HOMELY, YET MOMENTOUS CONFESSION—THE EARTH'S SECRETS.—THE CAVERN.—THE ACCUSATION.
"All is not well,
I doubt some foul play."
****"Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes."
Hamlet.
As they passed through the street, they perceived three or four persons standing round the open door of a house of ordinary description, the windows of which were partially closed.
"It is the house," said the Curate, "in which Houseman's daughter died—poor—poor child! Yet why mourn for the young? Better that the light cloud should fade away into Heaven with the
