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Updated: May 7, 2025
My uncle, whatever he might have been, was now a good man a religious man perhaps a little severe; and with this thought a dark streak fell across my sky. A cruel disciplinarian! had I not read of such characters? lock and key, bread and water, and solitude! To sit locked up all night in a dark out-of-the-way room, in a great, ghosty, old-fashioned house, with no one nearer than the other wing.
"Oh, my!" said the little girl, "that's awfully nice and ghosty, but I thought this was the best fire we ever had, and now you don't see anything in it at all." "Oh, yes, I do," I replied, "I have seen the ship all the time, that black ship with its sail of red flame.
He had got about half-way, when, looking up, he thought he saw, dim in the ghosty light of the moon, a speck upon the track before him. He said to himself it could hardly be any one on the moor at such a time of the night, and went on with his supper.
Granny says it was a lovely, comfortable room when she was going about, and everybody was in it every day. And certainly there are a lot of nice things in it, if they were only shaken about. But there's nobody to shake them, and it's awfully ghosty, and I do so feel afraid the ghosts will hear my bad playing and come to me.
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