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In person she conducted them to a pretty guest-room near her own apartments. "We won't invade the ghost's domain until time for bed," she announced gayly. "We will help each other," said Edith, as full of twinkles as Connie herself. "Then I will dress and come for you in about half an hour." "Isn't Miss Connie the dearest thing!" said Edith enthusiastically as the door closed.
It was your Ladyship's beauty." "That," says my Lady, "you needn't contemplate at all." At length, one afternoon a little before sunset, when the bright groups of figures which have for the last hour or two enlivened the Ghost's Walk are all dispersed and only Sir Leicester and my Lady remain upon the terrace, Mr. Tulkinghorn appears.
If I had such a troublesome ghost as that, I should not hesitate to have him arrested. "'But how? Where? they cried, in chorus. 'We have never seen him! "'But when he comes to his box? "'Then sell it. "'Sell the Opera ghost's box! Well, gentlemen, try it. "Thereupon we all four left the office. Richard and I had 'never laughed so much in our lives."
Deeply absorbed in my investigation, I was never more startled in my life than to hear in the stillness down the corridor the gasped words, 'Oh, God! I swept round my light, and saw leaning against the wall, in an almost fainting condition, Sophia Brooks, her eyes staring like those of a demented person, and her face white as any ghost's could have been. Wrapped round her was a dressing-gown.
A sad story; better not inquire into it. But at the present moment the time of her death seems likely to be determined by the strength of her own and other people's belief in the ghost's summons. Mrs. Seaton's grim mouth relaxed into an ungenial smile. She put up her eye-glass and looked at Catherine. 'An unpleasant household, I should imagine, she said shortly, 'for a young lady to visit.
And Hamlet promised to observe the ghost's direction in all things, and the ghost vanished. And when Hamlet was left alone, he took up a solemn resolution, that all he had in his memory, all that he had ever learned by books or observation, should be instantly forgotten by him, and nothing live in his brain but the memory of what the ghost had told him, and enjoined him to do.
But whether he did indeed pass there by that poor ghost's incantation, or whether he was stricken suddenly by apoplexy in the midst of an idle tale as the coroner's jury would have us believe is no matter for my judging; it is just one of those inexplicable riddles that must remain unsolved until the final solution of all things shall come.
"The one which I took to the ghost's box was another envelope, just like it, which the ghost gave me beforehand and which I hid up my sleeve." So saying, Mme. Giry took from her sleeve an envelope ready prepared and similarly addressed to that containing the twenty-thousand francs. The managers took it from her.
They could scarcely be supposed to have any bearing on the death of Jacob, his old partner, for that was Past, and this Ghost's province was the Future. Nor could he think of any one immediately connected with himself, to whom he could apply them.
A departure is much less romantic than an unexplained arrival in the golden evening. Although we might be greatly taken at a ghost's first appearance, we should behold him vanish with comparative equanimity. The good folk of the inn at Pont, when we called there for the bags, were overcome with marvelling.
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