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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
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LORD
BROUGHAM'S
STORY
"December
19,
1799.
"
.
.
.
At
one
in
the
morning,
arriving
at
a
decent
inn
(in
Sweden),
we
decided
to
stop
for
the
night,
and
found
a
couple
of
comfortable
rooms.
Tired
with
the
cold
of
yesterday,
I
was
glad
to
take
advantage
of
a
hot
bath
before
I
turned
in.
And
here
a
most
remarkable
thing
happened
to
me--so
remarkable
that
I
must
tell
the
story
from
the
beginning.
"After
I
left
the
High
School,
I
went
with
G---,
my
most
intimate
friend,
to
attend
the
classes
in
the
University.
.
.
.
We
actually
committed
the
folly
of
drawing
up
an
agreement,
written
with
our
blood,
to
the
effect
that
whichever
of
us
died
the
first
should
appear
to
the
other,
and
thus
solve
any
doubts
we
had
entertained
of
'the
life
after
death'.
G---
went
to
India,
years
passed,
and,"
says
Lord
Brougham,
"I
had
nearly
forgotten
his
existence.
I
had
taken,
as
I
have
said,
a
warm
bath,
and
while
lying
in
it
and
enjoying
the
comfort
of
the
heat,
I
turned
my
head
round,
looking
towards
the
chair
on
which
I
had
deposited
my
clothes,
as
I
was
about
to
get
out
of
the
bath.
On
the
chair
sat
G---,
looking
calmly
at
me.
How
I
got
out
of
the
bath
I
know
not,
but
on
recovering
my
senses
I
found
myself
sprawling
on
the
floor.
The
apparition,
or
whatever
it
was
that
had
taken
the
likeness
of
G---,
had
disappeared.
.
.
.
So
strongly
was
I
affected
by
it
that
I
have
here
written
down
the
whole
history,
with
the
date,
19th
December,
and
all
the
particulars
as
they
are
now
fresh
before
me.
No
doubt
I
had
fallen
asleep"
(he
has
just
said
that
he
was
awake
and
on
the
point
of
leaving
the
bath),
"and
that
the
appearance
presented
so
distinctly
to
my
eyes
was
a
dream
I
cannot
for
a
moment
doubt.
.
.
."
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