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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
169
I
have
been
permitted
thus
to
appear
in
order
to
assure
you
that
the
revealed
religion
is
the
true
and
only
one
by
which
we
can
be
saved.
I
am
also
suffered
to
inform
you
that
you
are
with
child,
and
will
produce
a
son,
who
will
marry
my
heiress;
that
Sir
Tristram
will
not
live
long,
when
you
will
marry
again,
and
you
will
die
from
the
effects
of
childbirth
in
your
forty-
seventh
year."
I
begged
from
him
some
convincing
sign
or
proof
so
that
when
the
morning
came
I
might
rely
upon
it,
and
feel
satisfied
that
his
appearance
had
been
real,
and
that
it
was
not
the
phantom
of
my
imagination.
He
caused
the
hangings
of
the
bed
to
be
drawn
in
an
unusual
way
and
impossible
manner
through
an
iron
hook.
I
still
was
not
satisfied,
when
he
wrote
his
signature
in
my
pocket-book.
I
wanted,
however,
more
substantial
proof
of
his
visit,
when
he
laid
his
hand,
which
was
cold
as
marble,
on
my
wrist;
the
sinews
shrunk
up,
the
nerves
withered
at
the
touch.
"Now,"
he
said,
"let
no
mortal
eye,
while
you
live,
ever
see
that
wrist,"
and
vanished.
While
I
was
conversing
with
him
my
thoughts
were
calm,
but
as
soon
as
he
disappeared
I
felt
chilled
with
horror
and
dismay,
a
cold
sweat
came
over
me,
and
I
again
endeavoured
but
vainly
to
awaken
Sir
Tristram;
a
flood
of
tears
came
to
my
relief,
and
I
fell
asleep.
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