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A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STOBY. 893
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The Wet Harvest-Season Of 1852 Must Have...
between From that believers night forward and unb , ours elievers was a divided moth famil er and y ; d ivided isters my
pri N belong umer sing ing i t call he " y to hea , mine the d of former t he house t , my , weaker mi father ght seem , and ty , myself and restore althoug to the balance h , latter com- , .
it did not really do so , as the subject was scarcely ever mentioned fro before m consideration either my fat of her her or feelings mother , . out The of respect firm belief to him in _, and her
paler seized brother and u ' s death more her afflicted self wh - enever absorbed my mother , let and ter t he greatl nervous brou y ; she ht became itation was painfu which daily l
to witness p . Had she been able to proclaim her g loss to the world , fr to iends talk it over relat with ions , her even famil to put y , to on receive mourning the i condolence t would have of
been some alleviation , to her grief ; whereas , the , mystery , the sorrow uncertainty surel , the brood thoug i ht ng o I ve if r it in iri secre ts come t , grea from tly added the " t vasty o her
deep " for ; no better y , purpose , , they sp had better keep at home . The battle thus lay between sisters and meand trul
my , y they " I had don the 't bel best ieve of it . ghosts Our ! conversations a ghost is an ran absurdity thus : — . " 1
" Not more so than that a living beingcan come and go through a brick wall , he " re did torted not Harriet do that . !
" " How Why , then of course do you , account for his app " earance and disappearhantl
ance ? " asked she , triumpy . 6 i There are many things we can't account for t . " hbth !
" " The But , room " said was little too Minnie dark , for " mamma her to dis kne tinguish w iwas cle arly . "
" " Ye Oh s , Emil " added y , it H is arrie cruel t" and and unfeeling wicked too to doubt it ' was it . a . " ; messenger
,, sent "It to had warn better poor have mamma kep . t " away , " said I warmly .
began " " That Fie to ! cry is fie a , , Emil questioning and Harriet y I" excl said of aimed Providence in a both solemn at and once voice we . : both Then tremble Minnie
to Alas hear ! you I shared talk so the of sup fat ernatural e of all those things , who . " believe less than
a their profan contemporaries e hard-hearted ; I infidel was pronounced ! wicked and irreligious !
made Instead me more of changing to my op lain inion the , mystery this harsh . Very sentence curious only is
the intense desire eager we experience exp to make others think like ourselves . I ani not much of a philosopher , but it seems to me
to arise less from a love of truth than the desire for sympathy _. I made All my enquiries endeavours of Torn were , the fruitless house ; boy I cross , as to -questioned the whereabouts Betsy ,
VOL . XII . 2 B
A Well-Authenticated Ghost Stoby. 893
A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STOBY . 893
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 393, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/33/
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