ghosts in The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
he waltz mingled with their merry laughter. "Looks like a haunted house," said Brian, thinking of Poe's weird poem; "but such a thing is impossible out here." "I don't know so much about that," said Madge, gravely, lifting up some water in the palm of her hand, and letting it stream back like diamo…
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- The Mystery of a Hansom Cab; Fergus Hume
- Published
- 1886 public-domain Melbourne fiction; Project Gutenberg transcription
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- Gold Rush Colonial
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- Melbourne, VIC (VIC): B
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- VIC
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he waltz mingled with their merry laughter. "Looks like a haunted house," said Brian, thinking of Poe's weird poem; "but such a thing is impossible out here." "I don't know so much about that," said Madge, gravely, lifting up some water in the palm of her hand, and letting it stream back like diamonds in the moonlight. "I knew a house in St. Kilda which was haunted." "By what?" asked Brian, sceptically. "Noises!" she answered, solemnly. Brian burst out laughing and startled a bat, which flew round and round in the silver moonlight, and whirred away into the shelter of a witch elm. "Rats and mice are more common here than ghosts,".
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