ghosts in At Midnight and Other Stories
it. The conclusion they've come to is that the old house is haunted, sir. I don't hold with ghosts myself, but that's the common view." "Haunted be blowed!" was Wingate's rude rejoinder; and he showed the rope, which was mysterious without being supernatural, and described how they had seen a man "…
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- 2,241
- Year
- 1,897
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
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- Record ID
- 2241
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
- Publication
- At Midnight and Other Stories; Ada Cambridge
- Published
- 1897
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- ghosts
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
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- Publicness
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it. The conclusion they've come to is that the old house is haunted, sir. I don't hold with ghosts myself, but that's the common view." "Haunted be blowed!" was Wingate's rude rejoinder; and he showed the rope, which was mysterious without being supernatural, and described how they had seen a man "scoot" round a corner of the house. "Besides," said he, "if ghosts were allowed to carry matches and candles, they'd burn the places down." "I suppose there are ghosts of lights as well as ghosts of people, if there are ghosts at all," argued Abel Rowe. "Be that as it may, no mortal hand lit that light you saw, sir, if it was in the big.
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