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S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould. A Book of Ghosts
A Book of Ghosts
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PREFACE
A BOOK OF GHOSTS
JEAN BOUCHON
"JEAN BOUCHON. MORT SUR LE CHAMP DE GLOIRE. 1870. DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI."
POMPS AND VANITIES
THEN THE BRIDE PUT BACK HER VEIL, AND BETTY, STUDYING THE WHITE FACE, SAW THAT THIS ACTUALLY WAS NOT HERSELF; IT WAS HER DEAD SISTER LETICE
McALISTER
THE LEADEN RING
HER HAT WAS BLOWN OFF, AND NEXT INSTANT A DETONATION RANG THROUGH HER HEAD AS THOUGH A GUN HAD BEEN FIRED INTO HER EAR
THE MOTHER OF PANSIES
THE RED-HAIRED GIRL
A WIFE'S STORY
A PROFESSIONAL SECRET
IF HE WENT OUT FOR A WALK THEY TROTTED FORTH WITH HIM, SOME BEFORE, SOME FOLLOWING
H. P
GLÁMR
COLONEL HALIFAX'S GHOST STORY
THE MEREWIGS
THE "BOLD VENTURE"
MUSTAPHA
I
II
III
IV
"YOU LET THAT MUSTAPHA COME IN, AND TRY AND STICK HIS KNIFE INTO ME."
LITTLE JOE GANDER
"MAMMY," SAID HE, "MAMMY, MY VIOLIN COST THREE SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE, AND I CAN'T MAKE IT PLAY NOWAYS."
A DEAD FINGER
I
II
III
IV
BLACK RAM
A HAPPY RELEASE
"I BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE TALKING GOODY-GOODY."
THE 9.30 UP-TRAIN
ON THE LEADS
AUNT JOANNA
SHE THRUST HER HAND INTO THE TEAPOT AND DREW FORTH THE COINS, ONE BY ONE, AND ROLLED THEM ALONG THE TABLE
THE WHITE FLAG
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S. Baring-Gould
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The girl was in a condition of boundless excitement. A beautiful ball-dress of white satin, trimmed with rich Valenciennes lace, was laid over her chair for her to wear. Neat little white satin shoes stood on the floor, quite new, for her feet. In a flower-glass stood a red camellia that was destined to adorn her hair, and on the dressing-table, in a morocco case, was a pearl necklace that had belonged to her mother.
The maid did her hair, but the camellia, which was to be the only point of colour about her, except her rosy lips and flushed cheeks—that camellia was not to be put into her hair till the last minute.
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