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Updated: May 13, 2025
I said it three times, it being Midsummer, and ghosses going to-and-agen and the death-pack about. He'll be bound to hearken to Ed'ard's prayer. She looked small and pitiful standing in the flickering candlelight. She turned again to the window, and Reddin went downstairs, quite overwhelmed and abashed. The house seemed eerier than ever, full of subdued complaints and whisperings.
'Never tell him, she said, looking up. 'Never in life, said Vessons. Hazel hesitated. 'Never tell him, she added, 'unless he asks a deal and canna rest. 'He may ask till Doomsday, said Vessons, 'and he may be restless as the ten thousand ghosses that trapse round Undern when the moon's low, but I'll ne'er tell 'im. Hazel sighed, and turned to climb the hill.
He delighted in wreath-making, gardening, and carpentering, and always in the background was his music some new air to try on the gilded harp, some new chord or turn to master. The garden was almost big enough, and quite beautiful enough, for that of a mansion. In the summer white lilies haunted it, standing out in the dusk with their demure cajolery, looking, as Hazel said, like ghosses.
And as Reddin and Hazel surely the most strangely met of all couples that had owned and been owned by this house went through the darkening rooms, they were not, it seemed, alone. A sense of witnesses perturbed Hazel, a discomfort as from surveillance. A soft rumour, as of a mute but moving multitude crept along the passages in their wake. 'Be there ghosses? she whispered.
Or where'd the fox-hunting gents be, and who'd have rabbit-pie? I dunna see as He can answer 'em. 'Little girls mustn't bother their pretty heads. 'If you'd found as many creatures in traps as me, and loosened 'em, and seed their broken legs, and eyes as if they'd seed ghosses, and onst a dog caught by the tongue eh! you'd bother! You would that! And feyther killing the pigs Good Fridays.
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