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In the isle of Napoleon's exile Two lectures A guest in the ghost-room at Plantation House An excursion to historic Longwood Coffee in the husk, and a goat to shell it The Spray's ill luck with animals A prejudice against small dogs A rat, the Boston spider, and the cannibal cricket Ascension Island.
While that smile was still in its infancy he jumped up suddenly and forced his way across the hall to his dead wife's room, the one ghost-room of his house and his life, and there with his hand on the turning door knob, tense with reluctance, goose-fleshed with strain, his breath gasped out of him whether or no with the one word "Alice!" And behold! There was no room there!
Hearing no more of him, I was prowling among the books in an ancient house, a rambling old place with a ghost-room, where I found Tupper, and could not get on with "Proverbial Philosophy." Next I tried Tennyson, and instantly a new light of poetry dawned, a new music was audible, a new god came into my medley of a Pantheon, a god never to be dethroned.
"They all may have gone to bed." Understand, I did not know then what I was doing. I was merely a wrong-headed boy, up to a prank, begun in a moment of rebellion. When I paused in the landing, outside the ghost-room, shading the candle with my hand, I was not aware that I was doing wrong. I was only thinking how fine it would be to find out about Mr.
The ghost-room is the tapestry-room, from which there is a staircase down to the breakfast-room. A good deal of the tapestry is loose, and when there is any wind it flaps and flaps. Hence all the tales.... The servants are rather bewildered by the size of everything, and like me were almost too excited to sleep.... The children are wandering blissfully about, exploring everything.
It was a thing apart from the rest of the house a sort of family ghost-room: a chamber of horrors, seen but once a week. But it contained one thing at least of interest something that at once brought Sam and Yan together. This was a collection of a score of birds' eggs. They were all mixed together in an old glass-topped cravat box, half full of bran. None of them were labelled or properly blown.
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