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The dignitaries of the post are seated about a table and the braves recline upon the ground during the council. "The séance opens with a speech of the chief, who rises and addresses the agent.
Terpsichorean tables and talking hats never had any particular charm for me, because I could always make a table dance, or a hat say anything I wanted it to say. I saw the Davenports, and preferred Professor Anderson. I even went to a dark séance at the Marshalls', and noticed that when Mr. and Mrs.
I worked hard all day, but in a kind of dream, as if the dead weight I carried with weariness were only the phantom of something, and I were a fantasy carrying it; the actual had become visionary, and my imaginings nudged me and jostled me almost off the path of reason. But I had no time for a séance with my dæmon.
You had a sitting, did you?" "Yes." "Whose idea was that Clarke's?" "No, father wanted to speak with Dr. Serviss and Dr. Weissmann." "Weissmann was there, was he? What did he say?" "He seemed impressed." "What happened?" "Father came, as usual " "I mean what happened outside the séance? Something set that girl against me and upset Clarke. I want to know what it was."
On the contrary, as soon as Eliphalet and the officer went into the house, there began at once a series of spiritualistic manifestations, a regular dark séance. A tambourine was played upon, a bell was rung, and a flaming banjo went singing around the room." "Where did they get the banjo?" asked Dear Jones skeptically. "I don't know. Materialized it, maybe, just as they did the tambourine.
We tried to convince him that his individual satisfaction was irrelevant to us, but it was, as Wordsworth says, "Throwing words away." It was a beautiful trick; and he was satisfied, quite satisfied. The Dark Séance, which formed the second part of the performance, was a dreadful mistake.
Fullerton added that he did not at the time think of connecting this accidental exposure with what the Medium was then doing, and suggested that possibly this exposure prevented Dr. Slade's use of this method at the séance reported by him, as it would seem that none of the communications produced on that occasion were of the sort produced by substitution of slates. Mr.
Keep a still tongue, and there may be other payments." Then, turning to his table, he showed me quantities of correspondence which had been left unattended in my absence, and urged me to get to work, adding: "I have to be at the Baroness Tchelkounoff's this afternoon, and there is a séance here to-morrow five neophytes to be initiated."
The next extracts from my diary refer to a séance which we attended in New York a few days after our arrival there, and some two or three weeks later than the Boston sitting already described. Our stay in Boston had extended to three months from the original fortnight we had planned for the visit.
I was promised that, if I would go to Mrs. B 's again, each of the children would come and place a hand in mine. I went to the ordinary séance some time before Christmas, and was then told that the test I wished which I had not then specified should be given to me at a private séance. We had the private séance, but nothing occurred. Such is my case.
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