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40 EVEBY-DAY GHOSTS ;
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There Are Some Shadows Which, Like Gout,...
more chantin perceptibl 1 perfume y ; perhap Or perhaps s it was my first whol introduction e nature was to rendered tliat
enimpressionable Yes , g I am — sure not . this to say last soft is — the , by my the secret excitement . When of our the heart moment and .
then imag strong ination * into feeling that , our or impressionable whole emotion being into in the short mass consistency , sinks is melted whatever of— and let softened us at say the — hy moment doug some h ,
affects , our senses . And lo ! when our nature resumes its usual lava state has of ri hardened gid impassibilit for evermore y , there into is that the one trace form fixed , sad for or ever grotesque . The _,,
, that Many was without and stamped many feelin upon a for time it an at have instant the ri I g smelt that ht moment sudden chloride . sinking of lime of , the and heart yet ,
that never indescribable stony g dread and terror which accompanied my first experience of an infectious fever in the house . confession
Even taste has its associations ; and , ludicrous as the may tton sound — , that raise harmless a host , thoug for me h slig For htly I greasy remember dish— when a shoulder quite of a
mucan g . ticle boy being of food seated was at being the school dispensed -room to dinner us . I one remember day , when the that doctor
arcoming to the house , and the sort of panic which seized upon me , I and remember which , with the a mysterious child ' s curious reserve in which , I kep one t ent elder irely person to myself after
;another was "beckoned from the way room , while the children's dinner continued its undisturbed course , while I even , devoured my proper silence
number of slices of this same shoulder of mutton in agitated , wondering present sumption at — domestic which going of to banquets die the . famil I declare where y was thoug ill this , and h same — I have a delicacy child frequentl ' s natural has than y graced been this
asthe board , that to this day I hate it , for no other reason said Who association does not of know panic the and dread of . sounds ? Who does not recollect power
Wordsworth ' s Reverie of Poor Susan ? ' * Who has not seen in melodrama afilicted famil , opera and and her ballet entant , the lover insane by heroine the orchestr restored a beg to inning her "
to Who play the has very not y air heard which the rep in rapturous former days and , etc difficult ., etc ., duet etc . ? which imherald
the mediatel restoration y follows of , the or - seen unfortunate the exulting lunatic _jjas to reason de deux ? which And I firmly s
believe in the possibility of it , and I should like to see the cure resorted to in real life . the
author Do not of that jeer libretto my dear had and studied sarcastic human reader natur ; depend e deeply upon , and it knew , tunes
the power of associations as well as I do . But to return to . to I confess sanity they And are especiall more likel one y to drive There me is nothing mad than very to striking restore me in
. y . able the old , and French even cynical air , " Portrait as I am , Charmant it will bring " and tears yet into old , and my eye reason s to
this- day , and stir in my heart the old memories that I fancy I
40 Eveby-Day Ghosts ;
40 EVEBY-DAY GHOSTS ;
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 40, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/40/
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