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He shook himself, and his flame turned to sullenness. "It's not so," he glowered. All the girl in him, the poet, the hero-worshipping boy, rebelled. His harassed eyes went to the wall beyond and the faces there, the ghosts of the doomed, glorious, youth-ridden line, priceless possessions of his dreams. He would not lose them: he refused to be robbed of a tragic birthright.
Well, I am sure to be better, and then we may have a chance to prove that there is absolutely no such thing in this world as ghosts," and with a fond embrace Dorothy dismissed the boy with the yellow hair, so like her own, and eyes just as blue. Surely Roger and Dorothy belonged to the Dales, while Joe, with his dark, rich coloring, was like the other branch of their family.
"There's ghosts on L'Etat, they do say, though sure the one John Drillot brought across was dead enough." "If he's there," said the other, plumbing Julie's feelings, "he's safe as a pig in a pen." "Where's our Peter?" demanded Mrs. Guille. "Peter? I d'n know. What's come of him?" and they stared blankly at her.
And I would need only to close my eyes, and all about me would come and go the ghosts of the mighty doers who are my kin. Big men, bearded and powerful, pushing up stream with the cordelle on their shoulders! Voyageurs chanting at the paddles! Mackinaws descending with precious freights of furs! Steamboats grunting and snoring up stream!
"I've not been in," said Dick's voice from behind them. "All I've done is force an entrance." From in front Tom Tripe took up the burden. "And I wouldn't have liked your job, sir! It was bad enough to sit and guard the door. After you'd gone o' nights I'd sit for hours with my hair on end, listening; and the dog 'ud growl beside me as if he saw ghosts!" "Maybe it was snakes," Yasmini answered.
Now I should not have liked the others to know that I was ever afraid of anything; but, really and truly, I was sometimes a little frightened not of breaking my leg, or a house on fire, or an apoplectic fit, or anything of that sort, but of things in the dark. Every half-holiday I hoped there would be something about what to do with robbers or ghosts, but there never was.
Mere words or names lost their first simple signification and acquired permanent association with imaginary spirits, demons, and haunting intangible ghosts, by reference to which our ancestors in their earliest "reasoning" explained to their own satisfaction the strange and sudden events fraught to them with the daily experience of pain or pleasure.
"If you're going to split straws about it," said McKinstry, "the ghost didn't tell him he would be killed there. He got his death wound, at any rate; that was near enough. A good deal better guess than you could make. Between the yelling of that bob-cat and Hector's grisly story, we're likely to have a good night's sleep. I think we'd better frighten the ghosts off, and then turn in."
The marvellous spread of Spiritualism, whose god is the UNKNOWABLE, and whose prophet was Swedenborg, is but the polished form of the Mpongwe Ibambo and Ilogo; the beneficent phantasms have succeeded to the malevolent ghosts, the shadowy deities of man's childhood; as the God of Love formerly took the place of the God of Fear.
All their misfortunes are attributed to the influence of this bad spirit, but they have some vague idea that it is in part permitted as a punishment for their bad deeds. They all believe in ghosts, and when they fancy that they have seen one, the friends of the deceased give a feast and hang up some clothing as an offering to appease the troubled spirit.
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