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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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Mrs.
Ricketts'
"resolution
remained
firm,"
but
her
health
was
impaired;
she
tried
changing
her
room,
without
results.
The
disturbances
pursued
her.
Her
brother
now
returned.
She
told
him
nothing,
and
he
heard
nothing,
but
next
day
she
unbosomed
herself.
Captain
Jervis
therefore
sat
up
with
Captain
Luttrell
and
his
own
man.
He
was
rewarded
by
noises
which
he
in
vain
tried
to
pursue.
"I
should
do
great
injustice
to
my
sister"
(he
writes
to
Mr.
Ricketts
on
9th
August,
1771),
"if
I
did
not
acknowledge
to
have
heard
what
I
could
not,
after
the
most
diligent
search
and
serious
reflection,
any
way
account
for."
Captain
Jervis
during
a
whole
week
slept
by
day,
and
watched,
armed,
by
night.
Even
by
day
he
was
disturbed
by
a
sound
as
of
immense
weights
falling
from
the
ceiling
to
the
floor
of
his
room.
He
finally
obliged
his
sister
to
leave
the
house.
What
occurred
after
Mrs.
Ricketts
abandoned
Hinton
is
not
very
distinct.
Apparently
Captain
Jervis's
second
stay
of
a
week,
when
he
did
hear
the
noises,
was
from
1st
August
to
8th
August.
From
a
statement
by
Mrs.
Ricketts
it
appears
that,
when
her
brother
joined
his
ship,
the
Alarm
(9th
August),
she
retired
to
Dame
Camis's
house,
that
of
her
coachman's
mother.
Thence
she
went,
and
made
another
attempt
to
live
at
Hinton,
but
was
"soon
after
assailed
by
a
noise
I
never
before
heard,
very
near
me,
and
the
terror
I
felt
not
to
be
described".
She
therefore
went
to
the
Newbolts,
and
thence
to
the
old
Palace
at
Winton;
later,
on
Mr.
Ricketts'
return,
to
the
Parsonage,
and
then
to
Longwood
(to
the
old
house
there)
near
Alresford.
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