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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
68
"Now
La
Sery
(his
mistress)
had
in
her
house
a
little
girl
of
eight
or
nine
years
of
age,
who
had
never
resided
elsewhere
since
her
birth.
She
was
to
all
appearance
a
very
ordinary
child,
and
from
the
way
in
which
she
had
been
brought
up,
was
more
than
commonly
ignorant
and
simple.
One
day,
during
the
visit
of
M.
d'Orleans,
La
Sery
produced
for
his
edification
one
of
the
charlatans
with
whom
the
duke
had
long
been
familiar,
who
pretended
that
by
means
of
a
glass
of
water
he
could
see
the
answer
to
any
question
that
might
be
put.
For
this
purpose
it
was
necessary
to
have
as
a
go-between
some
one
both
young
and
innocent,
to
gaze
into
the
water,
and
this
little
girl
was
at
once
sent
for.
They
amused
themselves
by
asking
what
was
happening
in
certain
distant
places;
and
after
the
man
had
murmured
some
words
over
the
water,
the
child
looked
in
and
always
managed
to
see
the
vision
required
of
her.
"M.
le
duc
d'Orleans
had
so
often
been
duped
in
matters
of
this
kind
that
he
determined
to
put
the
water-gazer
to
a
severe
test.
He
whispered
to
one
of
his
attendants
to
go
round
to
Madame
de
Nancre's,
who
lived
close
by,
and
ascertain
who
was
there,
what
they
were
all
doing,
the
position
of
the
room
and
the
way
it
was
furnished,
and
then,
without
exchanging
a
word
with
any
one,
to
return
and
let
him
know
the
result.
This
was
done
speedily
and
without
the
slightest
suspicion
on
the
part
of
any
person,
the
child
remaining
in
the
room
all
the
time.
When
M.
le
duc
d'Orleans
had
learned
all
he
wanted
to
know,
he
bade
the
child
look
in
the
water
and
tell
him
who
was
at
Madame
de
Nancre's
and
what
they
were
all
doing.
She
repeated
word
for
word
the
story
that
had
been
told
by
the
duke's
messenger;
described
minutely
the
faces,
dresses
and
positions
of
the
assembled
company,
those
that
were
playing
cards
at
the
various
tables,
those
that
were
sitting,
those
that
were
standing,
even
the
very
furniture!
But
to
leave
nothing
in
doubt,
the
Duke
of
Orleans
despatched
Nancre
back
to
the
house
to
verify
a
second
time
the
child's
account,
and
like
the
valet,
he
found
she
had
been
right
in
every
particular.
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