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Even then it seems that sleep did not visit his eyelids; for a wealthy grazier, who lay in the room below, complained bitterly the next morning of some person walking overhead "in all manner of strides, just for all the world like a happarition in boots." Viola. And dost thou love me? Lysander.... Love thee, Viola?
Even then it seems that sleep did not visit his eyelids; for a wealthy grazier, who lay in the room below, complained bitterly the next morning of some person walking overhead "in all manner of strides, just for all the world like a happarition in boots." Viola. And dost thou love me? Lysander. . . . Love thee, Viola?
"I hunderstand," he remarked, puffing at a trichinopoly, "that you want my 'elp in fitting up this 'ere 'ouse with a happarition." I acknowledged the correctness of his surmise, while mentally wondering at those restless eyes of his, which still danced about the room as if he were making an inventory of the contents.
It seemed rather hard on poor Elsie, who was, beyond doubt, innocent of any such forbidden practices. But I refrained from comment, for I wanted to hear more about the happarition. But Penny could not be drawn out. She professed herself so disgusted at Elsie's "superstition" that I could get no coherent account of what Aleck was supposed to have seen.
She realized with a sharp pang of concern what Pegler's mental defection would mean to her. It would be dreadful, dreadful, if Pegler began seeing ghosts, and turning hysterical. "What was the spirit like?" she asked quietly. And then, all at once, she had to suppress a violent inclination to burst out laughing. For Pegler answered with a kind of cry, "A 'orrible happarition, ma'am!"
"I let her off for the afternoon yesterday, to take tea with her haunt from America, and back she comes with a cock-and-bull story of a happarition her youngest brother Aleck imagined he saw the night before last." "An apparition!" I cried. "That's strange! Where did the boy see it?" "He couldn't have seen it, Mr. Edmund, as you must know very well, with your heducation and experience.
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