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"Why, the usual kind, of course," declared Will. "A ghosty ghost, to be sure. White, with long waving arms, and clanking chains, and all the accessories." "Stop it!" commanded his sister. "You'll scare Paul," for the child was looking at Will strangely. "Oh, it's white all right," put in Mr.
A regular ghosty one. Up to the house where I'm livin' now." "What's that? Don't swell so with pride, aristocrat!" "Who's a-swelling? If you don't want it, never mind. I ain't suffering to give it away. Don't know as Miss Lucy'd like it, any way."
'Thank you, Cousin Monica very much; but really and truly she does not ill-use me. 'Nor threaten you, child? 'Well, no no, she does not threaten. 'And how the plague does she frighten you, child? 'Well, I really I'm half ashamed to tell you you'll laugh at me and I don't know that she wishes to frighten me. But there is something, is not there, ghosty, you know, about her?
Winter slept there, the night through, in his winding-sheet of ice; with childlike smile, Spring came awake in the dawn; at noon, Summer blazed abroad in her gorgeous beauty; with the slow-changing afternoon, old Autumn crept in, and died at the first breath of the vaporous, ghosty night.
But here is nothing but a maze of little tunnels, criss-crossin' every which way, with nobody in sight except now and then, off in a dead-end, we'd get a glimpse of two or three kind of ghosty figures movin' about solemn. It's all so still, too. Except in places where we could hear the water roarin' there wasn't a sound.
As you know, ma'am, the servants here are a job lot; they don't know nothing about the house. 'Twasn't till to-day that one of the village people, the woman at the general shop and post office, let on that Wyndfell Hall was well known to be a ghosty place." There was a pause, and then Pegler added: "Still, as you and I well know, ma'am, tales don't lose nothing in the telling."
You have been very gloomy of late, just like you used to be before you married, mooning about and staring at nothing. And what on earth do you do sitting up to all hours of the morning in that ghosty old chapel, where I wouldn't be alone at twelve o'clock for a hundred pounds?" "I read," said Morris. "Read? Read what? Novels?" "Sometimes," answered Morris. "Oh, how can you tell such fibs?
'Ghosty is there? well, I'm sure I don't know, but I suspect there's something devilish I mean, she seems roguish does not she? And I really think she has had neither cold nor pain, but has just been shamming sickness, to keep out of my way. I perceived plainly enough that Cousin Monica's damnatory epithet referred to some retrospective knowledge, which she was not going to disclose to me.
'Nothing I should like better, if I were at liberty, little rogue; but you know, after all, I don't really say whether I do know anything about her or not, or what sort of knowledge it is. But tell me what you mean by ghosty, and all about it. So I recounted my experiences, to which, so far from laughing at me, she listened with very special gravity. 'Does she write and receive many letters?
The long clear twilight, which would last till morning, was about her, the eerie sleeping day, when the lovely ghosts come out of their graves in the long grass, and walk about in the cool world, with little ghosty sighs at sight of the old places, and fancy they are dreaming.
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