Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 9, 2025
At this I fairly yelled, then, feeling quite exhausted, I looked apprehensively at Lechuza, for this important member of the quartet had not yet spoken. With his immense, unspeakably serious eyes fixed on me, he remarked quietly, "And this, my friends, is the man who says it is wrong to steal horses!" But I was past shrieking now.
I determined, therefore, to go my own way, and, after drinking bitter mate, I caught and saddled the dun horse. I really had not deserved the severe censure Lechuza had passed on me the previous evening in reference to horse-stealing, for I had taken the dun with very little more compunction than one is accustomed to feel in England when "borrowing" an umbrella on a rainy day.
"Talking of ghosts " resumed Lechuza, without noticing my remark, and this nettled me; so I cut in once more: "I protest that we have heard quite enough about them," I said. "This conversation was only to be about rare and curious things. Now, visitors from the other world are very common.
"It is plain to see that you do not wish to hear my story. Still, sirs, from motives of courtesy you might have disguised your want of interest in what I was about to relate; for I have heard it said that the Orientals are a polite people." "There you are saying too much, my friend," broke in Lechuza.
"Not in my country, where the seasons are reversed," I said. "When I rose next morning it was dark as night, for a black fog had fallen upon the city." "A black fog!" exclaimed Lechuza. "Yes, a black fog that would last all days and make it darker than night, for though the lamps were lighted in the streets they gave no light." "Demons!" exclaimed Rivarola; "there is no water in the bucket.
I put it to you, my friends have you not all seen more ghosts than lampalaguas drawing foxes with their breath?" "I have seen that once only," said Rivarola gravely. "I have often seen ghosts." The others also confessed to having seen more than one ghost apiece. Lechuza sat inattentive, smoking his cigarette, and when we had all done speaking began again. "Talking of ghosts "
"Finding it was going to be dark all day," I continued, "I determined to go a little distance away, not out of London, you will understand, but about three leagues from my hotel to a great hill, where I thought the fog would not be so dark, and where there is a palace of glass." "A palace of glass!" repeated Lechuza, with his immense round eyes fixed sternly on me.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking