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A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STOBY. 29 !
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VIL— A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STORY.
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Mattersafter alldid not turn out quite s...
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A Well-Authenticated Ghost Stoby. 29 !
A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STOBY . 29
Vil— A Well-Authenticated Ghost Story.
VIL— A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STORY .
Mattersafter Alldid Not Turn Out Quite S...
Mattersafter alldid not turn out quite so badly for us as my
father measure excellent had , compensated antici but pated , the . for The circumstance the loss high of price the which crop of , sto tended the cks turni in most ps some too to were
yearl rais An e y my visit aunt father in of O ' ; ctober s my spirits mother . and She 's restore was was parsimonious in his the usual habit temper and of peculiar pay to was ing Minnie this , us and . a
however Harriet and who I was considered her favourite her rath she er as was an very infliction welcome ; , and she ,
would The love sit , of for the hours marvellous listening was to , their Aunt Pen at ' bond s old- of world unio stories nand .
this Aunt year Pen the believed ghost " in formed it immediatel the chief gre subject and of entirel convers y ; ation , she . y
questioned and features Minnie minutel generall y y as which to its hei Minnie ght and answered form , its with hair a , -
her must readin eyes head ess have a and melanchol been precision my y poor shake that dear , after astonished nep each hew rep me ; ly . you , as Aunt she describe Pen said gave him " It
_, exactl ( No y wonder . " as mamma had often , talked to us of her brother ,
and Minnie had , transferred her description to the figure she had " Poor scarcel Mary y seen , " . continued ) Aunt Pen , " she may well look so
sad " spot evening " She where with cannot it her stood forget eyes " fixed it , " , for obs half erved -an Harriet -hour at , a she tim s e its , _ori of the an
" I am sure , " said . Minnie with a sob , ( she had never quite recovered shudder I her don fri 't g dare ht , ) " about I never the pass house the alon p e lace at all without . " a go
Aunt Pen ; fell into a reverieand that same evening when we , think were " Cousin all this assembled last John wet . ( , she harvest she alway began has s thus put called you : — my wholl father y out so of ) , conceit I should of
Grange _"No use Farm " . said " my father gruffly , " I have neither money
"enoug Bat h to get , would out of if it nor could to take ? " ' a new one . " you
Aunt My Pen father you u not assented to worry moodil him y with , and that my subject mother he must . ' whisp be worried ered to if
he won Nonsense 't , Mary his , " sai s and d the see old wh lad at y , is " good for you and the open eye ,
family . You'll pine yourself to death here . ' *
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1864, page 29, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031864/page/29/
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