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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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"They
received
no
communication
from
England
for
about
five
months,
when
a
letter
from
Mr.
Rush,
the
surgeon
(Coldstream
Guards),
announced
the
death
of
John
Wynyard
at
the
moment,
as
near
as
could
be
ascertained,
when
the
figure
appeared.
In
addition
to
this
extraordinary
circumstance,
Sir
John
told
me
that
two
years
and
a
half
afterwards
he
was
walking
with
Lilly
Wynyard
(a
brother
of
Colonel
W.)
in
London,
and
seeing
somebody
on
the
other
side
of
the
way,
he
recognised,
he
thought,
the
person
who
had
appeared
to
him
and
Colonel
Wynyard
in
America.
Lilly
Wynyard
said
that
the
person
pointed
out
was
a
Mr.
Eyre
(Hay?),
that
he
and
John
Wynyard
were
frequently
mistaken
for
each
other,
and
that
money
had
actually
been
paid
to
this
Mr.
Eyre
in
mistake."
A
famous
tale
of
an
appearance
is
Lord
Brougham's.
His
Lordship
was
not
reckoned
precisely
a
veracious
man;
on
the
other
hand,
this
was
not
the
kind
of
fable
he
was
likely
to
tell.
He
was
brought
up
under
the
regime
of
common-sense.
"On
all
such
subjects
my
father
was
very
sceptical,"
he
says.
To
disbelieve
Lord
Brougham
we
must
suppose
either
that
he
wilfully
made
a
false
entry
in
his
diary
in
1799,
or
that
in
preparing
his
Autobiography
in
1862,
he
deliberately
added
a
falsehood--and
then
explained
his
own
marvel
away!
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