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He stopped, onst or twice, as though he wor restin' hisself pullin' 'isself together and onst I 'eered 'im cough " Halsey looked round suddenly on his companion as though daring him to mock. Betts, however, could not help himself. He gave an interrupting and sceptical chuckle. "Ghostisses don't cough, as ever I 'eered on." "And why shouldn't they?" said Halsey testily.
"Why ghostisses!" said Halsey, with a frown, removing his pipe for a moment to give emphasis to the word. "I don't see as a man can be expected to deal with ghostisses. Anythin' else yer like in a small way mad dogs, or bulls, or snakes, where they keep 'em, which, thank the Lord, they don't in these parts but not them." "What did yer see?" said Betts, after a few ruminating pulls.
Stubbs as keeps the little sweet-shop near the church, if any one in the village will so much as come up the avenue after dark; and says to me, the very day I come here, 'You have a nerve, she says; 'I wouldn't sleep there if you was to pay me, she says; and I says, not wishing to speak against a family that was cousin to Mrs. de Noël, 'Noises is neither here nor there, I says, 'and ghostisses keeps mostly to the gentry's wing, I says.
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