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Hannah never knowed no peace again after she spoke them words in the co't-house. They come back an' harnted her, an' you know, Miss Downs, better 'n I do, being door-neighbors as one may say, how they lived their lives out like wild beasts into a lair." "They used to go out some by night to git the air," pursued Mrs. Downs with interest.
It was my old cow that died." "Give me sea-room here, by clam!" muttered Captain Pharo, shooting his arms about. "Ef I b'lieved in gho's, I sh'd say 't your but'ry was harnted, Jane," came from the kitchen the solemn and shifty voice of the Man-Who-had-Been-in-California: "le's step around by the outside way to the door whar the folks is.
It seemed from the echoes agin, as if there was a hundred people a yelling it put all at once. "Oh, very happy, said she, 'very happy, indeed; guess you'd find it so if you was here. I know I should feel very happy if I was out of it, that's all; for I believe, on my soul, this is harnted ground, and the people in it are possessed.
Can this here confounded old house be harnted? Is them spirits that's jabbering gibberish there, or is I wide awake or no? So I sets right up on my hind legs in bed, rubs my eyes, opens my ears and listens agin, when whop went every shutter agin, with a dead heavy sound, like somethin' or another thrown agin 'em, or fallin' agin 'em, and then comes the unknown tongues in discord chorus like.
There was the song or rather howl again, sounding curiously distant, and yet, odd as it may seem, curiously near, and Ike leant towards me. "I say," he whispered, "did you ever hear of anything being harnted?" "Yes," I said, "I've heard of haunted houses." "But you never heerd of a harnted market cart, did yer?" "No," I said laughing; "never." "That's right," he whispered.
If ever they looked at me the sight of 'em would never go out of my eyes. I'd be harnted by 'em, awake and asleep. And to-morrow is Thanksgiving. I've got to go, dad, and I will." So speaking, he rushed away and was swallowed in the gloom. The man stared after him; then, with a revulsion of feeling, he cried, "You're right, 'Siah. I'll go with you."
Can this here confounded old house be harnted? Is them spirits that's jabbering gibberish there, or is I wide awake or no? So I sets right up on my hind legs in bed, rubs my eyes, opens my ears and listens agin, when whop went every shutter agin, with a dead heavy sound, like somethin' or another thrown agin 'em, or fallin' agin 'em, and then comes the unknown tongues in discord chorus like.
"Going by Rorley Place?" he said. "Rorley Place?" said Hilary; "where's that?" "Yon old house," was the reply. "Don't go in; she's harnted!" "Oh! is she?" said Hilary. "Ay, that she be," said the man. "She's been empty this hundred year; but you can see the lights shining in the windows of a night, and hear the groans down by the gate and by the little bridge over Rorley stream."
It seemed from the echoes agin, as if there was a hundred people a yelling it put all at once. "Oh, very happy, said she, 'very happy, indeed; guess you'd find it so if you was here. I know I should feel very happy if I was out of it, that's all; for I believe, on my soul, this is harnted ground, and the people in it are possessed.
This knocking he had to repeat twice over before he heard steps, and then a couple of rusty bolts were pushed back, the door was dragged open, and a very venerable old lady stood peering wonderingly in their faces as she screened her eyes with her hand. "Ye'd better not come in," she said in a loud, harsh voice. "The place is harnted, and it isn't safe."
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