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Updated: May 20, 2025
Coming a little nearer, with the view of inquiring for the family, her quick eye caught sight of something unexpected. A gust of wind blew up a corner of a linen lap-robe in the back of the wagon, and underneath it she distinctly saw the white-sheeted bundle that held the flag; the bundle with a tiny, tiny spot of red bunting peeping out at one corner.
He remembered her death and those pictorial effects in the white-sheeted room effects of light and shadow of flowers of the grey head uplifted; he remembered also trying to realise them, stealthily, at night, in his own room, with chalk and paper and then his passion with himself, and the torn drawing, and the tears, which, as it were, another self saw and approved. Then came school-days.
Bounce went the door crack went the pew crash came the tackle white-sheeted ghosts dancing in one corner by the glow-worm's light black devils hobbling in another Lord have mercy upon us! and I was hailed, Tom, I was, by my grandmother Jane, and my aunt Bridget, d'ye see a couple of d n'd but they're roasting; that's one comfort, my lad."
There was a great rug upon the floor, a white-sheeted and counterpaned bed, fresh pajamas, table, chair, alcohol-stove, glasses and cups and water-pitchers. There were cloths for fresh bandages, wide palm-leaf fans . . . there was even ice and the promise of further ice to come. The sun was shut out by heavy curtains across the main entrance and the broken-out holes in the easterly wall.
Bredwel, to pass Gayman out undetected, ushers him through the room white-sheeted like a ghost, and the two old fools are well frightened, but eventually they conclude there has been some mistake or trick. Sir Feeble returns home to find Leticia with her jewels about to flee, but she succeeds in reassuring him.
"Ghosts, my laddiebuck. But not the white-sheeted lady that comes an' says, 'Foller me, nor the spook that carries his head under his arm tied up in a tablecloth, but ghosts, my laddiebuck, that make tracks while they walk." "I thought ghosts rode broomsticks," said Jud. "Nary a broomstick," replied the hunchback.
There was a shuffling of feet and the stretcher was wheeled past with a small, white-sheeted form lying motionless upon it. "It's all over," said Dr. Wyeth, following briskly. "He put up a pretty stiff fight while taking the anesthetic, but we downed him at last. The conditions were less serious than I anticipated. With care and good nursing he ought to get well right away now. Hello!
A squad of mounted men in close formation, so that their scarlet jackets stood out against the dun prairie like a flame in the dark, rode away from the camp, halted on the first hill an instant, then scattered north, south, and west. After that there was no visible stir around the white-sheeted commissary.
"I never noticed water before falling from such a height," said Julian; "it looks exactly like a succession of white comets plunging through the sky in a crowd." "Or a throng of white-sheeted ghosts hurrying deliriously through the one too-narrow entrance of the lower world," said Kennedy. "Doesn't it remind one of Schiller's line "`Und es wallet und liedet und brauset und Pikcht?"
Suddenly she had an unnerving consciousness that several other white-sheeted figures had crept stealthily between her and the doorway. With a little cry of alarm, she turned and strove to re-enter the hotel. Instantly she was swept off her feet, a coarse hand closed on her mouth, and she was dragged with brutal force into the carriage.
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