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Now, then, stay where you are until I come to fetch you. Then, when I say, "Fly, ghostie! away, ghostie!" you can go back to the hut and take off the disguise which turns you into so fearsome an object. I have brought a jug of hot water, and here is a basin, and you can wash your face and hands. Leuchy will certainly not recognise you.
Twelve girls will play different animals, and the crisis and crux of the whole thing will be the appearance of "poor ghostie," which part Hollyhock will undertake herself. I warn you beforehand that, as you are so very timid in the presence of false ghosts for, of course, I personally do not believe in real ghosts it would be wise for you to remain in your bedroom, and thus keep out of the way.
He was drowned here in the lake on the night before his wedding. He's very unquiet, is that poor ghost! I do not mind him one little bit, being a sort of friend, almost a relative, of his. Many and many a night, when the moon is at the full, have I stood by the lake and said, "Come away, my laddie. Come, poor ghostie, and I 'll dry your wet hair." Poor fellow, he likes me to rub him dry.
But now listen. When I give the words, "Go, ghostie! Run, ghostie, run! I cannot dry your wet hair this night, for I have a lassie lying in a swoon across my arms," then you must scatter, scatter with all the speed you have in you, or the sport will be spoiled.
"'Good morning, Long Sin Coo. 'Hello, Ghostie. 'Hey, Spirit, may I borrow a nip of brandy to make an ethereal cocktail for my imaginary nightcap? "And he opened his transom and took to talking to himself out loud. So Emily decided to close her transom. It stuck. She asked my assistance, and we balanced a chair on a box and I held it steady while she got up to oil the transom.
Nance insisted on coming to open the gate, and on the way there she gave me full and careful directions as to the way to Tutcheter and thence to the Grange. She swung the gate open and let me through. Then she came to my sword side and held up her face to be kissed. "Good-bye, ghostie!" "Good-bye, sir! God bless you!"
They were very sick of their cousin, and very angry with her; and it was finally decided that the girl who was to come to her rescue in the moment of her terrible extremity was to be Hollyhock herself. The others were all to fly out of sight. Hollyhock was to desire ghostie to go, and was to support Leucha into the house. After that well, no one quite knew what would come!
We went back through the kitchen to make a search of the front of the house. A pretty sight awaited me within doors. The good wife was sipping at a cup of parsnip wine, and the girl was again wearing nothing but her nightdress. With crimson face and downcast eyes, she stood there holding my coat out. "Hallo, ghostie!" said I, smiling at her. "You want to frighten me again, do you?"
How shall we set to work, lassies? The Flower Girls considered. Jasmine inquired anxiously if Leucha was clever in any particular branch. 'No, said Hollyhock; 'she could not even make a ghostie. 'Well, can we not pretend that she is clever? said Gentian. 'That's a good notion, exclaimed Hollyhock.
'Well, at any rate, we will let things be at present; but I must go up and speak to Margaret Drummond. She is fretting like anything about the whole affair. 'Meg, said Hollyhock in a tone of contempt 'let her fret; only tell her from me to keep her tongue from wagging. Why, she was cut out for a ghostie, so thin and tall she is.
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