I doubted not--never doubted--that if Mr. Reed had been alive he would have treated me kindly; and now, as I sat looking at the white bed and overshadowed walls--occasionally also turning a fascinated eye towards the dimly gleaning mirror--I began to recall what I had heard of dead men, troubled in their graves by the violation of their last wishes, revisiting the earth to punish the perjured and avenge the oppressed; and I thought Mr. Reed's spirit, harassed by the wrongs of his sister's child, might quit its abode--whether in the church vault or in the unknown world of the departed--and rise before me in this chamber.
Yo no dudaba de que, si mi tío hubiera vivido, me habría tratado bien. Y en aquellos momentos, mientras miraba al lecho y las paredes sombrías, y también, de vez en cuando, al espejo que daba a todas las cosas un aspecto fantástico, empecé a rememorar ocasiones en las que oyera hablar de muertos salidos de sus tumbas para vengar la desobediencia a sus últimas voluntades.