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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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Instead,
however,
of
her
servant,
she
was
astonished
to
see
the
face
of
an
aunt
by
marriage
peering
above
and
between
the
curtains,
and
at
the
same
moment--whether
unconsciously
she
threw
forward
her
arms,
or
whether
they
were
drawn
forward,
as
it
were,
in
a
vortex
of
air,
she
cannot
be
sure--one
of
her
thumbs
was
sensibly
pressed
between
the
teeth
of
the
apparition,
though
no
mark
afterwards
remained
on
it.
All
this
notwithstanding,
she
remained
collected
and
unalarmed;
but
instantly
arose,
dressed,
and
went
downstairs,
where
she
found
not
a
creature
stirring.
Her
father,
on
coming
down
shortly
afterwards,
naturally
asked
what
had
made
her
rise
so
early;
rallied
her
on
the
cause,
and
soon
afterwards
went
on
to
his
sister-in-law's
house,
where
he
found
that
she
had
just
unexpectedly
died.
Coming
back
again,
and
not
noticing
his
daughter's
presence
in
the
room,
in
consequence
of
her
being
behind
a
screen
near
the
fire,
he
suddenly
announced
the
event
to
his
wife,
as
being
of
so
remarkable
a
character
that
he
could
in
no
way
account
for
it.
As
may
be
anticipated,
Emma,
overhearing
this
unlooked-for
denouement
of
her
dream,
at
once
fell
to
the
ground
in
a
fainting
condition.
On
one
of
the
thumbs
of
the
corpse
was
found
a
mark
as
if
it
had
been
bitten
in
the
death
agony.
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We
have
now
followed
the
"ghostly"
from
its
germs
in
dreams,
and
momentary
hallucinations
of
eye
or
ear,
up
to
the
most
prodigious
narratives
which
popular
invention
has
built
on
bases
probably
very
slight.
Where
facts
and
experience,
whether
real
or
hallucinatory
experience,
end,
where
the
mythopoeic
fancy
comes
in,
readers
may
decide
for
themselves.
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