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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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"She
then
requested
to
be
left
that
she
might
lie
down
and
compose
herself,
and
her
children
quitted
the
apartment,
having
desired
her
attendant
to
watch
her,
and
if
any
change
came
on
to
summon
them
to
her
bedside.
In
an
hour
the
bell
rang,
and
they
hastened
to
the
call,
but
all
was
over.
The
two
children
having
ordered
every
one
to
retire,
knelt
down
by
the
side
of
the
bed,
when
Lady
Riverston
unbound
the
black
ribbon
and
found
the
wrist
exactly
as
Lady
Beresford
had
described
it--every
nerve
withered,
every
sinew
shrunk.
"Her
friend,
the
Archbishop,
had
had
her
buried
in
the
Cathedral
of
St.
Patrick,
in
Dublin,
in
the
Earl
of
Cork's
tomb,
where
she
now
lies."
The
writer
now
professes
his
disbelief
in
any
spiritual
presence,
and
explains
his
theory
that
Lady
Beresford's
anxiety
about
Lord
Tyrone
deluded
her
by
a
vivid
dream,
during
which
she
hurt
her
wrist.
Of
all
ghost
stories
the
Tyrone,
or
Beresford
Ghost,
has
most
variants.
Following
Monsieur
Haureau,
in
the
Journal
des
Savants,
I
have
tracked
the
tale,
the
death
compact,
and
the
wound
inflicted
by
the
ghost
on
the
hand,
or
wrist,
or
brow,
of
the
seer,
through
Henry
More,
and
Melanchthon,
and
a
mediaeval
sermon
by
Eudes
de
Shirton,
to
William
of
Malmesbury,
a
range
of
700
years.
Mrs.
Grant
of
Laggan
has
a
rather
recent
case,
and
I
have
heard
of
another
in
the
last
ten
years!
Calmet
has
a
case
in
1625,
the
spectre
leaves
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