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THE WHITE GHOST OF BERLIN. 225
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Dating Of Its Foundation Its Origin Alik...
Incredulity It was probabl that we y a find further her , on mark her of next resentment appearance Interview at , subordinate _presenting with the
herself at head whose -qu de arters ath she at once cam , e and to portend seeking , the an Electoral Princess personage where she
was moment Louisa seen Henrietta the sitting Princess , on in a the chair entered Princess as thoug the 's own h artment engage sleep d ing the in room writing lad , bowed , but her the apy
head to her and immediately vanished . A single visit might it suffice was to the give decease warning of the concerning great Elector less noted that individuals was to be , foreb but when oded ,
the attendance warning at sp the irit Castle appears and to again have it given is a mu clerical ch more gentleman protracted who
the bears taining White testimony that Lad In the when to h year er he p , resence his went master on , that Sunday died Prince , s he to ' s was preach cour accustomed t c at ha the plain Schloss main to see - ,
and had even y watched her for hours and days together . _IsTor did the next ruler who reigned over the country , King Frederick I .,
minde pass sitting attired away d in one maintained whit without evening e suddenl due that by intimation y he twili rushed had ght onl past of in his c him his impending , ht _ov and _/ n a g thoug chamber limpse fate h the of , , for a his strong fi when gure own
lunatic wifewho had slipped away for y aug a moment from , her nurses , repeating the King to himself , those aroun was d far him from , " I accep have ting seen this the exp Whit lanation e Lady , and and
must die ! " soon after fulfilled his own prediction . His successor , the hard old soldier [ Frederick William I ., was not one to allow h his
himself to be crushed out of existence by an idea , thoug nerves were put to the test prettfrequentlyfor instead of the
to White be continuall Lady reservin in attendance g her visitation y him for a and dying in , some hour , parts she seemed of the upon
Castle he had but y to open a door and there , she would be standing circuit her before presence In him order ; , but he to at if do least too so preferred "bold These by n courtly to ature avoid to assiduities it be , and absolutel would ceased y often terrified when make his at a
. sh It scep _otild could tical have hardl son much Frederick y be supposed attra the ction Great that for a the became denizen discip the le of and lord the friend sp of irit the -world of Castle Voltaire ; , but for
If in his lifetime she held aloof , his death ( in 1768 ) was not to be of suffered the interest to _joass taken by without by unearthl even beings more than in such the events customary for during tokens
y , of the the King Schloss ' s last unused illness , halls mournful and howlings apartments were were heard seen in supernatu the vault - s
rall ble y a lig melanchol hted up , , and incident the shadowy this time White marking Lady her again re- became _apj > earance visi- .
An , assistant to y one of the regimental surgeons in attendance on
ment the sick in monarch the Schloss , was , " sitting when he late heard at ni a g p ht iercing writing shriek in his , and apart the -
The White Ghost Of Berlin. 225
THE WHITE GHOST OF BERLIN . 225
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 225, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/9/
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