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    A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STORY. 35

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    disp mystery leased cleared , asked a away few . questions Mamma incredulousl on the contrary y , thoug s ht this and that was strangeand could scarcely believe it was possible

    him for anyone and ended to have by gone treating , along Mr the . Morlan passag d e for without some our day hearing s with

    silence marked , and coldness when . I As wished to my to sisters get at , they their maintained opinionthey absolute only

    , , shook "It their is better heads not ; at to leng discuss th Harriet a subject said— on which we entirely

    differ . " " Differ ! how ? you do not dispute rather Mr not . Morland talk about ' s story it . "

    This " Certainl was y very not— provoking but I would , and I went to Mr . Morland . " for

    • sympath "In ancient y . He times answered there by was a fable a king — , who on . account of his his This

    great was especiall beauty , y was the exalte case d in into a distant a demi- province god to by be his of subjects the likeness king . dom ,

    where devoutl some y worshi miserable pped . daubs This , professing coming to * the king ' s ears , , were his and instructed

    majesty the best felt painter annoyed of the in day being to tak so misrepresented e a faithful portrait , of himto

    daubs be dispatched which at to the the sam distant e time province were ordered to replace to be the burnt mis . erable The ,

    le , howeverrefused obedience . In vain did the officers direct peop , from the , court assure them that what they called the had

    king ' s likeness did not resemble him in the least ; they fines made vinced and . up In imprisonment their spite minds then . of that , the unimpeachable th true ey were portrait , and testimony hung would neg not , lected in be spite con over of

    its shrinewhile thousands of worshippers crowded to do homage to , the lying daubs . " " What does that mean ? I asked . "

    they " Simp seldom ly this do more , that than thoug hug h peop their le own fancy beliefs they . " love the truth ,

    marvellous leman " " If I wonder d they and coul must if d all l they be g equal host fed would , stories one or still another as could political be . believed " be exp economists laine ; the d as love easil say of , y the the . "

    < suppy towards u It may enlig be htening so , but the I public am resolved . I will that write I will down do the my whole part tuff

    from is made beg ' inning at least to one end 6 Well , that -authenticated it may be known Ghost of Story what . ' " * s

    A Well-Authenticated Ghost Story. 35

    A WELL-AUTHENTICATED GHOST STORY . 35

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1864, page 35, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031864/page/35/