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30 A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STORY.
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" " Lend Dear aunt me a , thousand how can pounds my husband and 111 hel g p ive it ? notice " to-morrow "
, , " I said I my will father cousin , half John laug ! hing and - at the shall preposterous the interest idea . to you pay my
niecefor y it is what I want to leave her at my death ; you must . -observe , the conditions though , and quit this place as soon as
from possibl My that father e . " tim , e scarcel forward y believing became like his ears his , old readil self y again consented . , and
So it was not that we two girls should alone leave home , but hands that the Harriet dear old and place I were was to pass sentimental away entirel about y into it other we very
them gazed adieu . more almost affectionatel with y tear than s in ever our on eyes our and old that haunts long , bidding before , we leftwe hung over the little stream , sand pointed out to
each oth ; er the little peeps of landscape we thoug , ht so charming * . felt Especial almost ly did like we guilty linger creatures around the in deserting church and them church , and yard almost , we
fancied that the one round window in the tower of the former brothers was One an eye Sunday who looking were morning home down " upon for Harriet their us reproachfu Christm and I as , lly holidays with . our walked two
through the fields to church . The boys plagued us exceeding , ly , first very improper by sliding , and on then every when puddl we e made sheeted them with walk ice more , which orderl was y
e the th \ rer ey poking teased did was us old to by sen p say lace d ing , his and " ghost Th that ey to should the scare best be us g away thing lad enoug . " Uncle Altogether h to George leave
we felt harassed and disturbed as we entered the church , but no restored the tice sig Miss ht us of . Olarkes Harriet the Grange ' nud magnificent ged House me , as famil feathers we y walked in but their up my pew the attention aisle greatl , to y
was at once arrested by another object . , Standing- up by the pew door , facing the aisle , was a tall dark man , whom it struck
me I must have seen before , and I fixed my eyes curiously caused upon him me ; to but blush a peculiar scarlet smile and made gathering me hurry round into his my mouth pew
and not look that way again . , After service my brothers persuaded us to return home by
the lanewhere there was a pond they wished to survey- ; we had expatiate thoug scarcel , hts on y got the were clear " lovel entirel of y the y cloaks occup congr the ied egation Misses with when the Clarkes stranger Harriet had . on began , I " had but to
my just turn got of the as lane far as there " . Did he you stood notice with — - one ? " when of the lo I at a Clarkes sudden . young
Boys in the country always know one another , so my brothers
fraternized immediately with Fred Clarke , and having explained
30 A Well-Authenticated Ghost Story.
30 A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STORY .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1864, page 30, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031864/page/30/
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