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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
162
THE
BERESFORD
GHOST
"There
is
at
Curraghmore,
the
seat
of
Lord
Waterford,
in
Ireland,
a
manuscript
account
of
the
tale,
such
as
it
was
originally
received
and
implicitly
believed
in
by
the
children
and
grandchildren
of
the
lady
to
whom
Lord
Tyrone
is
supposed
to
have
made
the
supernatural
appearance
after
death.
The
account
was
written
by
Lady
Betty
Cobbe,
the
youngest
daughter
of
Marcus,
Earl
of
Tyrone,
and
granddaughter
of
Nicola
S.,
Lady
Beresford.
She
lived
to
a
good
old
age,
in
full
use
of
all
her
faculties,
both
of
body
and
mind.
I
can
myself
remember
her,
for
when
a
boy
I
passed
through
Bath
on
a
journey
with
my
mother,
and
we
went
to
her
house
there,
and
had
luncheon.
She
appeared
to
my
juvenile
imagination
a
very
appropriate
person
to
revise
and
transmit
such
a
tale,
and
fully
adapted
to
do
ample
justice
to
her
subject-
matter.
It
never
has
been
doubted
in
the
family
that
she
received
the
full
particulars
in
early
life,
and
that
she
heard
the
circumstances,
such
as
they
were
believed
to
have
occurred,
from
the
nearest
relatives
of
the
two
persons,
the
supposed
actors
in
this
mysterious
interview,
viz.,
from
her
own
father,
Lord
Tyrone,
who
died
in
1763,
and
from
her
aunt,
Lady
Riverston,
who
died
in
1763
also.
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