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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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THE
DEATHBED
Miss
C.,
a
lady
of
excellent
sense,
religious
but
not
bigoted,
lived
before
her
marriage
in
the
house
of
her
uncle
D.,
a
celebrated
physician,
and
member
of
the
Institute.
Her
mother
at
this
time
was
seriously
ill
in
the
country.
One
night
the
girl
dreamed
that
she
saw
her
mother,
pale
and
dying,
and
especially
grieved
at
the
absence
of
two
of
her
children:
one
a
cure
in
Spain,
the
other--herself--in
Paris.
Next
she
heard
her
own
Christian
name
called,
"Charlotte!"
and,
in
her
dream,
saw
the
people
about
her
mother
bring
in
her
own
little
niece
and
god-child
Charlotte
from
the
next
room.
The
patient
intimated
by
a
sign
that
she
did
not
want
this
Charlotte,
but
her
daughter
in
Paris.
She
displayed
the
deepest
regret;
her
countenance
changed,
she
fell
back,
and
died.
Next
day
the
melancholy
of
Mademoiselle
C.
attracted
the
attention
of
her
uncle.
She
told
him
her
dream;
he
pressed
her
to
his
heart,
and
admitted
that
her
mother
was
dead.
Some
months
later
Mademoiselle
C.,
when
her
uncle
was
absent,
arranged
his
papers,
which
he
did
not
like
any
one
to
touch.
Among
these
was
a
letter
containing
the
story
of
her
mother's
death,
with
all
the
details
of
her
own
dream,
which
D.
had
kept
concealed
lest
they
should
impress
her
too
painfully.
Boismont
is
staggered
by
this
circumstance,
and
inclined
to
account
for
it
by
"still
unknown
relations
in
the
moral
and
physical
world".
"Mental
telegraphy,"
of
course,
would
explain
all,
and
even
chance
coincidence
is
perfectly
conceivable.
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