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A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STOBY. 391
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The Wet Harvest-Season Of 1852 Must Have...
finishin cousin who g stit was ches to to be a shortl handkerchief married . I I had had embroidered been asked to for her a y
new wedding dress , but which the were new indispensable gloves and ribbons for such , to an say occasion nothing , were of a
not to be had , , and , so , reluctantly enough I had declined . sli not g The htest satisfactory figures movem upon , for ent which he or was noise nay more fath called er irritable was out engaged said angril than been ever y were to , apparentl and us not at the to y
book silent disturb , ventured but him at . leng We to ask th had , Harriet whether therefore , who , as as the wished I candles , to go were sitting on not with to quite her be
and lighted Harriet , yet , stabbing she might vi , gorousl make a y blaze into , the ? Mamma coals produced nodded a assent bright , rath
awkward blaze , but ) she in putting upset the down tongs the , which poker fell ( she with was a deafening always clash er against the shovel . The sudden noise after startled and us half all ; my father from
fi my asked gure seat , in wrapped to a loud see . in voice In a military doing what she so cloak , I was becam , standing e , aware about I of a a yard rose tall from dark the ht made bthe
blaz the e door . Surprise -way , just more within than the fear reach caused of me to lig sink heard down on y and my
stool and utter a low exclamation . Minnie me , and following shrieking the out direction , _" A Ghost of my ! A eyes Ghost , also ! " saw flung the herself appearance on her , motherfather
kneesand buried her face in my ' s lap . My , pen more , and , than perceiving ever angry the at fi thi gure s fresh , exclaimed disturbance , with , an threw oath down , " his
Who The fi the whose are you ? I and had what felt the rather than do you seen want were here fixed ? " eyes
upon its mouth me gure , advanced ; , I thought a step it was , whilst going a curious to speak smile , but gath just ered then round our with low
and back groan whole when fainting uttered attention we _^ looked in " her Georg was chair again fixed e , my . upon the We dear figure all poor brother hastened was mamma gone George to , ! who her ! " assistance and a sank ,
" Who could it be ? " s , aid my father in an undertone to me as he gave the bottle of smelling * salts he had been holding for
ring mamma " * Don the ' bell t into . ' Harriet ! " ' s said hand Harriet . u Li lay ght ing a her candl hand e , Emil on his y , arm and ;
go , papa , _"u if it Pshaw should child be my min poor d uncle's mother spirit !" and don't talk stuff . your
, , shading Make I readily haste the , obeyed candle Emily , . with for " my curiosit hand y I was followed stronger my father than my into fear the ;
my , passage boltedand . No an one iron th bar ere ! put We across examined as usual the . front " The door glass ; it door was
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A Well-Authenticated Ghost Stoby. 391
A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STOBY . 391
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 391, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/31/
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