spirit in At Midnight and Other Stories
n as she stepped into the hall, carrying her tea-basket in her arms. They saluted her with a shamefaced sense of her moral superiority over themselves. "I should like," said Wingate, emptying the remaining contents of his spirit flask into the men's teacups, "to thoroughly satisfy your minds as wel…
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- 2,251
- Year
- 1,897
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
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- Record ID
- 2251
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
- Publication
- At Midnight and Other Stories; Ada Cambridge
- Published
- 1897
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- spirit
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
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n as she stepped into the hall, carrying her tea-basket in her arms. They saluted her with a shamefaced sense of her moral superiority over themselves. "I should like," said Wingate, emptying the remaining contents of his spirit flask into the men's teacups, "to thoroughly satisfy your minds as well as my own, to prove to everybody that the house is free of ghosts, at any rate. It is just possible I may rent the place from Sir Walter for a time, and I am well aware that we should have trouble with servants, and so on, if any nonsense of that sort got about. I suppose you won't object to sleeping with us here to-night, now that a.
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