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We may conclude this chapter with some account of strange and varied death-warnings, which are attached to certain families and foretell the coming of the King of Terrors. In a Co. Wicklow family a death is preceded by the appearance of a spectre; the doors of the sitting-room open and a lady dressed in white satin walks across the room and hall.
"You're not very lively company," said Miss Kybird, bending over her sewing. "I don't think you've spoken a word for the last quarter of an hour, and before that you were talking of death-warnings. Made my flesh creep, you did." "Shame!" said Mr. Nugent. "You didn't say anything to me about your flesh creeping," muttered Mr. Silk. "You ought to have seen it creep," interposed Mr. Nugent, severely.
The book includes such different items as hauntings, death-warnings, visions, and hallucinations, some of which obviously can no more be attributed to discarnate spirits than can the present writer's power of guiding his pen along the lines of a page; whether others of these must be laid to the credit of such unseen influences is just the question.
"You're not very lively company," said Miss Kybird, bending over her sewing. "I don't think you've spoken a word for the last quarter of an hour, and before that you were talking of death-warnings. Made my flesh creep, you did." "Shame!" said Mr. Nugent. "You didn't say anything to me about your flesh creeping," muttered Mr. Silk. "You ought to have seen it creep," interposed Mr. Nugent, severely.
G , who was found lying senseless on the road, as the horses had taken fright and bolted, flinging him out, and breaking the carriage-pole. But of all the death-warnings in connection with Irish families surely the strangest is the Gormanstown foxes. The crest of that noble family is a running fox, while the same animal also forms one of the supporters of the coat-of-arms.
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