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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
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"The
nurse
at
Rochester,
widow
Alexander
by
name,
affirms,
and
says
she
will
take
her
oath
on't
before
a
Magistrate
and
receive
the
sacrament
upon
it,
that
a
little
before
two
o'clock
that
morning
she
saw
the
likeness
of
the
said
Mary
Goffe
come
out
of
the
next
chamber
(where
the
elder
child
lay
in
a
bed
by
itself)
the
door
being
left
open,
and
stood
by
her
bedside
for
about
a
quarter
of
an
hour;
the
younger
child
was
there
lying
by
her.
Her
eyes
moved
and
her
mouth
went,
but
she
said
nothing.
The
nurse,
moreover,
says
that
she
was
perfectly
awake;
it
was
then
daylight,
being
one
of
the
longest
days
in
the
year.
She
sat
up
in
bed
and
looked
steadfastly
on
the
apparition.
In
that
time
she
heard
the
bridge
clock
strike
two,
and
a
while
after
said,
'In
the
name
of
the
Father,
Son
and
Holy
Ghost,
what
art
thou?'
Thereupon
the
apparition
removed
and
went
away;
she
slipped
on
her
clothes
and
followed,
but
what
became
on't
she
cannot
tell.
"Mrs.
Alexander
then
walked
out
of
doors
till
six,
when
she
persuaded
some
neighbours
to
let
her
in.
She
told
her
adventure;
they
failed
to
persuade
her
that
she
had
dreamed
it.
On
the
same
day
the
neighbour's
wife,
Mrs.
Sweet,
went
to
West
Mulling,
saw
Mrs.
Goffe
before
her
death,
and
heard
from
Mrs.
Goffe's
mother
the
story
of
the
daughter's
dream
of
her
children,
Mrs.
Sweet
not
having
mentioned
the
nurse's
story
of
the
apparition."
That
poor
Mrs.
Goffe
walked
to
Rochester
and
returned
undetected,
a
distance
of
eighteen
miles
is
difficult
to
believe.
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