ghost in Human Repetends
lose her before a word could pass between us, appeared to give me the right to seek to know more of her. The proud queen of many a fantastic dream-revel; the sad chatelaine of many an air-built castle; had this portrait leapt to life beneath my glances as bounded to earth the nymph from beneath the…
- Record ID
- 2,261
- Year
- 1,872
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 2261
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
- Publication
- Human Repetends; Marcus Clarke
- Published
- 1872
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- ghost
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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lose her before a word could pass between us, appeared to give me the right to seek to know more of her. The proud queen of many a fantastic dream-revel; the sad chatelaine of many an air-built castle; had this portrait leapt to life beneath my glances as bounded to earth the nymph from beneath the chisel of Pygmalion? Had the lost one who passed me like a ghost in the gloaming come out of the grave in which they had placed her four hundred years ago? What meant this resurrection of buried beauty? What was the mysterious portent of this living presentment of a dead and forgotten sin? I saw the poor creature buried. I wept--no.
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