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"You must be Miss Hope, the governess I've come to meet," said the apparition, in a tone that admitted of very little argument. "Very well, if I must I must," said Lady Carlotta to herself with dangerous meekness. "I am Mrs. Quabarl," continued the lady; "and where, pray, is your luggage?"
The sight of the glittering files of the English Foot-Guards, supported by several squadrons of horse, of the cannon which the artillerymen were busily engaged in planting against the bridge, of the plaided clans who seemed to search for a ford, and of the long succession of troops which were destined to support the attack, silenced at once their clamorous uproar, and struck them with as much consternation as if it were an unexpected apparition, and not the very thing which they ought to have been looking out for.
On this principle, Hobbes has ingeniously accounted for the spectre which is said to have appeared to Brutus; and the well-known story told by Clarendon, of the apparition of the duke of Buckingham's father will admit of a similar solution.
Startled by the sudden apparition of an emaciated young man, bareheaded, shoeless, half-clad, but for all his gentleness a beggar who would take no denial, Innocent hesitated. It was but for a brief hour, the next he was won. Francis returned to Assisi with the Papal sanction for what was, probably, a draught of his afterwards famous "Rule."
When she came to him, an eighteen-year-old girl, endowed with all the fair beauty of her northern land, she gave him as proof of her proficiency some of her piano fugues. The experienced master rather doubted if the charming apparition before him could produce such an intricate work as a fugue without receiving aid, so he gave her a new theme and requested her to write another fugue upon it.
The apparition, at the water's edge, raised its hand slowly to its lips, and from between its teeth took a small object which it tossed toward the other. The object struck lightly against Creed's breast and dropped to the ground. He looked, downward it was a 30-40 bullet his own! He stared dumbly at the thing on the ground. Then, automatically, he fired again, taking careful aim.
He started up from his chair, white faced, his hands high above his head, staring at the apparition of Whistling Dan, who stood with two revolvers covering the posse. Every man was on his feet instantly, with arms straining stiffly up. The muzzles of revolvers are like the eyes of some portraits. No matter from what angle you look at them, they seem directed straight at you.
The shutters of the show-window were not yet taken down, but thin lines of light filtered through them, light enough to see that the apparition made its way to a forbidden spot slyly haunted by the little boy in his days of mischief, a certain shelf where a box of some peculiar sort of expensive confections was kept.
But no one had heart for further gaiety, and, finding Lady Treherne already alarmed by Annon, they were forced to tell her all, and find their own bewilderment deepened by her unalterable belief in the evil omen. At her command the house was searched, the servants cross-questioned, and every effort made to discover the identity of the apparition.
Lawrence Hall; he turned as if he had seen an apparition, and ran rather than walked in the direction of his own home. Next day Miss Montague departed for the West, Mrs. and Miss Dombey accompanied by Charles went to see her off at the Depot, and with many assurances of a future meeting, should she ever return to Montreal, they separated as the train moved slowly past the platform.
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