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But Barrett's experience of life, short as it was, had taught him the difference between the ideal and the real. The real, he suspected, would in this case be painful. Certain facts would come to light. When had he found the cups? About four in the afternoon? Oh. Roll-call took place at four in the afternoon. How came it that he was not at roll-call?
Wilfrid was keen to see the change for which others might have accused a temporary headache. To which end, he was again absent from Brookfield, for a space, and bitterly missed. Emilia, for the last two Sundays, had taken Mr. Barrett's place at the organ.
Story of the Ghost. The Deceased Wife's Sister. Beginning of the Phenomena. Death of Fanny. Recurrence of Phenomena. Scratchings. Parallel Cases. Ignorance and Malevolence of the Ghost. Possible Literary Sources. Investigation. Imitative Scratchings: a Failure. Trial of the Parsonses. Professor Barrett's Irish parallel. Cause undetected. The Theories of Common-sense. The St. Maur Affair.
"When?" asked Laura, shamefully bewildered. "When you alluded to Mr. Barrett's vacant place." "Not at the moment." "I thought you must be pointing to her advancement." "I confess it was not in my mind." "In what consisted the singularity, then?" "The singularity?" "You prefaced your remarks with the exclamation, 'Singular!" Laura showed that Arabella had passed her guard.
Jamieson and Miss Sedgwick who writes from America; they are all interesting people, but it must be confessed that the correspondence is not very enlivening. Miss Barrett's is an exception, that is almost as good as handwriting to read.
Barrett wanted, till, ultimately, Chatterton furnished him with many curious particulars concerning the castle, and every church and chapel in the city of Bristol! and these are some of the choicest materials of Mr. Barrett's otherwise, valuable history! 9thly. Public curiosity and general admiration are excited by poems, affirmed to be from the Erse of Ossian. 10thly. Mr.
When he was gone I went into Barrett's room. As I have intimated, one of the troubles of mine-owning if the mine be a producer is to hold the smelter people in line.
We met so constantly and so familiarly that, in spite of the difference of age, intimacy ripened into friendship, and after my return into the country we corresponded freely and frequently, her letters being just what letters ought to be her own talk put upon paper. Miss Barrett's letters show how warmly she returned this feeling of friendship, which lasted until Miss Mitford's death in 1855.
Who believed that a poetess could ever be more than an Annot Lyle of the harp, to soothe with sweet melodies the leisure of her lord, until in Elizabeth Barrett's hands the thing became a trumpet? Where are gone the sneers with which army surgeons and parliamentary orators opposed Mr. Sidney Herbert's first proposition to send Florence Nightingale to the Crimea?
If no other spiritual books were in existence than five which have appeared in the last year or so I allude to Professor Lodge's Raymond, Arthur Hill's Psychical Investigations, Professor Crawford's Reality of Psychical Phenomena, Professor Barrett's Threshold of the Unseen, and Gerald Balfour's Ear of Dionysius those five alone would, in my opinion, be sufficient to establish the facts for any reasonable enquirer.
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