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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
42
"A
Josef,
pour
porter
a
celui
qui
je
luy
ay
dit,
une
emeraude
emaille
de
blanc.
"A
Josef,
pour
porter
a
celui
qui
je
luy
ai
dit,
dont
il
ranvoir
quittance.
"Une
bague
garnye
de
vingt
cinq
diamens
tant
grands
que
petis."
Now
the
diamond
cross
seen
by
the
young
officer
in
1845
was
set
with
diamonds
great
and
small,
and
was,
in
his
opinion,
a
gift
from
or
through
Rizzio.
"The
queen
wore
it
out
of
sight."
Here
in
the
inventory
we
have
a
bague
(which
may
be
a
cross)
of
diamonds
small
and
great,
connected
with
a
secret
only
known
to
Rizzio's
brother
and
to
the
queen.
It
is
"to
be
carried
to
one
whose
name
the
queen
has
spoken
in
her
new
secretary's
ear"
(Joseph's),
"but
dare
not
trust
herself
to
write".
"It
would
be
idle
now
to
seek
to
pry
into
the
mystery
which
was
thus
anxiously
guarded,"
says
Dr.
Robertson,
editor
of
the
queen's
inventories.
The
doctor
knew
nothing
of
the
vision
which,
perhaps,
so
nearly
pried
into
the
mystery.
There
is
nothing
like
proof
here,
but
there
is
just
a
presumption
that
the
diamonds
connected
with
Rizzio,
and
secretly
worn
by
the
queen,
seen
in
the
vision
of
1845,
are
possibly
the
diamonds
which,
had
Mary
died
in
1566,
were
to
be
carried
by
Joseph
Rizzio
to
a
person
whose
name
might
not
safely
be
written.
{35a}
We
now
take
a
dream
which
apparently
reveals
a
real
fact
occurring
at
a
distance.
It
is
translated
from
Brierre
de
Boismont's
book,
Des
Hallucinations
{35b}
(Paris,
1845).
"There
are,"
says
the
learned
author,
"authentic
dreams
which
have
revealed
an
event
occurring
at
the
moment,
or
later."
These
he
explains
by
accidental
coincidence,
and
then
gives
the
following
anecdote,
as
within
his
own
intimate
knowledge:--
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