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To get away to get away from Paris, that accursed city " He paused, staring at the floor, and the girls waited, hardly daring to move for fear they would break the spell. "The rest is like a bad dream to me," the man continued in a weary voice. "Ghost-ridden, haunted, I came to this country incognito under what you call an assumed name. For a short time I stayed in New Orleans "
Was he expelled from some community of spirits?" Renouard essayed to respond in the same tone. The words died on his lips. Was it a man or a woman ghost, the professor inquired. "I don't know." Renouard made an effort to appear at ease. He had, he said, a couple of Tahitian amongst his boys a ghost-ridden race. They had started the scare. They had probably brought their ghost with them.
Craven allowed her eight shillings a week till Tim was once more a free man, when he absconded, leaving wife and children chargeable to the parish. "A poor, nervous creature," said Mr. Craven, who would not believe that where gas was, any house could be ghost-ridden. "We must really try to let the house in earnest."
Eric and Skallagrim sat together on the open space of rock that is before the cave, and great heaviness and fear came into their hearts, so that they had no desire to sleep. "Methinks the night is ghost-ridden," said Eric, "and I am fey, for I grow cold, and it seems to me that one strokes my hair." "It is ghost-ridden, lord," answered Skallagrim.
But if we manfully walk up to the phantom, stretch our hands to seize it, oh! it fades into thin air, the cheat of our eyesight is dispelled, and we shall never be ghost-ridden again. So it must be with this mental illusion of mine. I see an image strange to my experience: it seems to me, at first sight, clothed with a supernatural charm; like an unreasoning coward, I run away from it.
Idle talk of strange sights and sounds crowded out of notice any true history the house may have had in those twenty-five years, or until war had destroyed that slavery to whose horridest possibilities the gloomy pile, even when restored and renovated, stood a ghost-ridden monument. Yet its days of dark romance were by no means ended. The era of political reconstruction came.
The god of light, coming to Germany from some more favoured world beyond it, over leagues of rainy hill and mountain, making soft day there: that had ever been the dream of the ghost-ridden yet deep-feeling and certainly meek German soul; of the great Dürer, for instance, who had been the friend of this Conrad Celtes, and himself, all German as he was, like a gleam of real day amid that hyperborean German darkness a darkness which clave to him, too, at that dim time, when there were violent robbers, nay, real live devils, in every German wood.
"Perchance I am ghost-ridden," she said. "They are not ghosts of a past happiness, at all events," he answered. She sat down on a stool before the hearth, and clasping her fingers upon her knee looked thoughtfully into the embers of the fire. Presently she began to speak in a low, even voice, he looking down at her, his feet apart, his hand thrust backward towards the heat.
That fact helped him through what he felt was going to be somewhat of an ordeal his entrance into the gloomy and ghost-ridden old house of his inheritance. Merriton Towers had been called the loneliest spot in England by many of the tourists who chanced to visit the Fen district, and it was no misnomer.
For Joe and Little Billie, and perhaps Gusty Bellows, were not quite as easy in their minds about that "ghost-ridden" island as they might have been; although, if taken to task, all would doubtless have stoutly denied any belief in things supernatural. The Comfort acted as the pilot boat, and led the way, slowly but surely, with the Speedwell not far behind.
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