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And after it had telled me what I've telled you, it gae the cannel a wave round its head, and then the hale hoose, wa's, roof, and riggin, gaed a' in a blue low; and I saw the ghaist flee up through the couple bauks as clear as ever I saw the owsen afore me when the sun was shinin! But I could stand nae mair, for I steekit my een, and I'm sure I lay dead for near an hour.
If I had no laucht at yon foolish lads and begun to rin at the first you'd a bin sinkin' doon to the bowels o' the airth be the noo! Wully Beagrie thocht you was a ghaist, and Tom MacPhail swore ye was only like a goblin on a puddick-steel! "Na!" said I. "Yon's but the daft Englishman the loony that had escapit frae the waxwarks."
It's no five minutes yet since I saw a ghaist oh dear, oh dear! it gars my very blood rin cauld o' thinkin on't and it said, if I dinna marry you in less than a fortnicht, I maun gang to hell-fire to be burned, for the promises I made i' the glen. O Nelly, Nelly, tak pity on me, and let the marriage be on Monanday, or Tysday at farrest."
My leddy was as thin and as white as a ghaist, and many's the time as I've come on her and found her yammerin' and greetin' all by hersel'. I've watched her walkin' up and doon in the wood where she thought nane could see her and wringin' her honds like one demented.
"I suppose," said the Doctor, "a Mackinnon would return the compliment, if speaking of a Macdonald." The man laughed, and said, he supposed "Yes," then added, "See! what's yon?" "A white stump burnt black at one side, what did you think it was?" "I jaloused it might be a ghaist. There's a many ghaists and bogles about here."
For I would sooner face fifty deevils as my master's ghaist, or even his wraith; wherefore, aroint ye, if ye were ten times my master, unless ye come in bodily shape, lith and limb." "It is I, you old fool," answered Ravenswood, "in bodily shape and alive, save that I am half dead with cold."
"I only said that my master was surely speaking to a ghaist in the library and the villain Lancie to betray an auld friend, that sang aff the same Psalm-book wi' him every Sabbath for twenty years!" He was turned out of the house, together with Syddall, without being allowed to conclude his lamentation. His expulsion, however, led to some singular consequences.
'It's his ghaist, muttered Davie; yet, coming nearer, he seemed to acknowledge his living acquaintance. The poor fool himself appeared the ghost of what he had been.
That theory certainly does drive the cold calm psychical researcher back upon the primitive explanation: 'A ghaist's a ghaist for a' that! We must come to this, we must relapse into savage and superstitious psychology, if once we admit a 'phantasmogenetic agency. But science is in quest of Truth, regardless of consequences. Cock Lane Ghost discredited. Popular Theory of Imposture. Dr. Johnson.
On the evening after the stained-glass 'windie' had been set up in the new kirk and dedicated to the memory of Saint Cuthbert, the Reverend Alexander Macgregor and his elder, Ringan Telfer, the ancient 'herd, sat together in the manse's little 'sanctum' or library, enjoying a 'crack, a glass of whisky, and a pipe of tobacco. 'It's a gey an' useful thing a ghaist, said Ringan meditatively.
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