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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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From
her
bedroom
Emily
heard
a
noise
of
breaking
the
empty
bottles
under
the
stairs,
but
was
going
to
bed,
when
Hetty,
who
had
been
sitting
on
the
lowest
step
of
the
garret
stairs
beside
the
nursery
door,
waiting
for
her
father,
was
chased
into
the
nursery
by
a
sound
as
of
a
man
passing
her
in
a
loose
trailing
gown.
Sukey
and
Nancy
were
alarmed
by
loud
knocks
on
the
outside
of
the
dining-room
door
and
overhead.
All
this
time
Mr.
Wesley
heard
nothing,
and
was
not
even
told
that
anything
unusual
was
heard.
Mrs.
Wesley
at
first
held
her
peace
lest
he
should
think
it
"according
to
the
vulgar
opinion,
a
warning
against
his
own
death,
which,
indeed,
we
all
apprehended".
Mr.
Wesley
only
smiled
when
he
was
informed;
but,
by
taking
care
to
see
all
the
girls
safe
in
bed,
sufficiently
showed
his
opinion
that
the
young
ladies
and
their
lovers
were
the
ghost.
Mrs.
Wesley
then
fell
back
on
the
theory
of
rats,
and
employed
a
man
to
blow
a
horn
as
a
remedy
against
these
vermin.
But
this
measure
only
aroused
the
emulation
of
the
sprite,
whom
Emily
began
to
call
"Jeffrey".
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