John Marchmont's Legacy. Volume 1 of 3. Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Charles I, who had murdered his coachman in a fit of insensate rage; and it was even asserted, upon the authority of an old housekeeper, that John Marchmont's grandmother, when a young woman and lately come as a bride to the Towers, had beheld the murdered coachman stalk into her chamber, ghastly and blood-bedabbled, in the dim summer twilight. But as this story was not particularly romantic, and possessed none of the elements likely to insure popularity, – such as love, jealousy, revenge, mystery, youth, and beauty, – it had never been very widely disseminated.
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