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V.—EVERYDAY GHOSTS.
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There are some shadows which, like gout,...
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V.—Everyday Ghosts.
V . —EVERYDAY GHOSTS . BY A HAUNTED MAN .
There Are Some Shadows Which, Like Gout,...
There are some shadows whichlike goutseem to attach themselves
exclusively to the rich , and to leave , the poor , unmolested . It may be that the material troubles of life drive away moxe delicate and
intangible annoyances , or it may _-be that the poor have less leisure to Among dwell on these them , ; the but associations for some cause which or _, fasten other , like so it burrs is . to special
past objects pain , and , are which pre-eminentl give to some y the trifle curse _^ the of the power upper of classes conjuring . up a
A laboring man , in a four-roomed cottage , cannot close up one room because his wife died in it . A poor charwoman can spare no
drawer to hold the clothes last worn by her dead child ; no , she must cut them for the onesand be thankful for them
which too . It could would be up more be too profitabl great younger y a disposed waste to of , keep at the any pawnbroker relic to cry ' s ; over and
rich cannot space man and afford has lei . the sure "Well room and , so where some much kin he the ds can better of never grief perhaps sit are again . luxuries Meanwhile or the the casket poor the
that lie dare not open , or the path through his wood , that he will never enteror the that is never to be mountedor the picture
, pony , that is curtained from a stranger's gaze , —and so much the worse perhaps But I . am wandering from subjectalthough perhaps
meant the voluntary to brooding dim and away over fade , , and the nursing my perverse up refastening , feelings which of links , are which are grow intended to be brokenindirectly strengthen those
involuntary associations which haunt , may us in spite of ourselves . We all know them more or less ; in proportion , perhaps , to the
nervousness of our organisation , the vividness of our imagination , and the These keenness ghosts of our do not memory necessaril . y come to pain us ; they may be
merely indifferent , or even ludicrous . And to begin with the last kind .
they than Is will there the word a more few forlorn pathetic if ? . , I or And _ax a _> peal more yet to that musical any word intelli word is gen practicall in t the reader language y taken , and
say , any away If — I had made written useless a — sonnet worse than of a useless melanchol to me . nature if thirteen y ;
lines ing and out a for half its companion were completed and ; sense if born and or metre torn and was rhyme the -word all
imperativel cry y dictated , nay clamored , for forlorn , that word I could not and would not insertNoI would flto " the world ' s scorn , "
. , y to the earliest hour of " morn ; " anywhere in short , rather than use
that , to me , obnoxious dissyllable . And why ? I answer , Because
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 37, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/37/
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