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226 THE WHITE GOHST OF BEBMN.
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Dating Of Its Foundation Its Origin Alik...
sound as of some one falling , just outside Ms door . On opening * It great , a fi horror gure dressed he soon in discovere white lay d that insensible this was on no the other floor than , and his to own his
Ibetrothed , a young lady , the daughter of one of the Castle officials-. Carried to her own room , it was long before she was able to speak ,
but at length "was sufficiently restored to inform her friends that having resolved in ort to try the courage of her sweetheart , with
whom she had often sp conversed on the subject of the White Lady , she had attired herself in a bathing dress and long veil of linen ,
and crossed the courtyard , where the affrighted sentinels fled in terror at her approach , but just as she reached her lover's door ,
she herself was met by the figure of a lady in white , who , lifting * proved her veil so , disclosed great that a the ghastl poor y corpse girl fell -like a victim countenance to carried what . The some out shock trick said
could only have been , after all , a more elaborately of the very _sajne kind she was herself endeavouring to practise , for the days of [ Frederick the Great "were by no means days of
universal credulity ; she however died in the course of the night ; but by the next morning another the more important ic little death "wa at s also the
announced Schloss -was , and bruited as the about report it -was of adde trag d that the Kin romance himself had expired at the very same , hour that the pretended White g Lady had
-encountered the real one . Taken in chronological order , the next appearance on record
-would probably be the one mentioned by Mrs . Crowe as having been narrated in a publication called the Iris , published at Frankfort
In 1819 , the editor , George Doring , said to have been a man of great integritiving the account as heard from the lips of his own
mother , having y , g also vouched for its authenticity when asked shortly before his death whether the story were really correct . It _aiopears
that his motherwhen about the ag _* e of fifteen , being on a visit with of another the court young , she , sister one day to an heard elder a one strange , who soun was d companion like the music to a lad of y a
harp behind the large stove in the corner of the room where the from g with irls had a her yard hand been measure sitting when , the alone thoug sound , h and her on ceased sister rapp ancl ing only the the laug floor stick hed near , was saying the wrested that spot
the music must , have been , reallin the streetshe in alarm rushed out of the roomReturning soon y aftershe , found her sister in a
swoon , and on recovering . , the latter declared , that as soon as she had been left alone the music recommencedand a white _figTire
fainted advanced The towards owner her of , the whereupon apartment , overcome s hoping , to by have terror caug , she ht scent had
. of a concealed treasurehad the floor raised , when a vault was discovered beneath containing , however only a quantity of quick-lime .
himse The circumstances lf by no means soon surprise came d at what ears had of occ the urred King , say , who ing expressed that the
226 The White Gohst Of Bebmn.
226 THE WHITE GOHST OF _BEBMN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/10/
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