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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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We
expected
it
to
end
for
good
and
all,
but
in
the
course
of
the
week
came
a
communication
to
the
doctor
in
writing
from
Mrs.
Claughton's
governess.
This
lady,
on
Mrs.
Claughton's
arrival
at
her
London
house
(Friday,
13th
October),
passed
a
night
perturbed
by
sounds
of
weeping,
"loud
moans,"
and
"a
very
odd
noise
overhead,
like
some
electric
battery
gone
wrong,"
in
fact,
much
like
the
"warning"
of
a
jack
running
down,
which
Old
Jeffrey
used
to
give
at
the
Wesley's
house
in
Epworth.
There
were
also
heavy
footsteps
and
thuds,
as
of
moving
weighty
bodies.
So
far
the
governess.
This
curious
communication
I
read
at
Rapingham
on
Saturday,
14th
October,
or
Sunday,
15th
October.
On
Monday
I
went
to
town.
In
the
course
of
the
week
I
received
a
letter
from
my
kinsman
in
Rapingham,
saying
that
Mrs.
Claughton
had
written
to
Dr.
Ferrier,
telling
him
that
she
had
gone
to
Meresby
on
Saturday;
had
accomplished
the
bidding
of
the
ghosts,
and
had
lodged
with
one
Joseph
Wright,
the
parish
clerk.
Her
duty
had
been
to
examine
the
Meresby
parish
registers,
and
to
compare
certain
entries
with
information
given
by
the
ghosts
and
written
by
her
in
her
note-book.
If
the
entries
in
the
parish
register
tallied
with
her
notes,
she
was
to
pass
the
time
between
one
o'clock
and
half-past
one,
alone,
in
Meresby
Church,
and
receive
a
communication
from
the
spectres.
All
this
she
said
that
she
had
done,
and
in
evidence
of
her
journey
enclosed
her
half
ticket
to
Meresby,
which
a
dream
had
warned
her
would
not
be
taken
on
her
arrival.
She
also
sent
a
white
rose
from
a
grave
to
Dr.
Ferrier,
a
gentleman
in
no
sympathy
with
the
Jacobite
cause,
which,
indeed,
has
no
connection
whatever
with
the
matter
in
hand.
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