J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3

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and had gone very poor. There's but the walls o' the house left now; grass growing in the hall, and ivy over the gables; there's no one livin' has ever hard tell o' smoke out o' they chimblies. It stands on t'

e fifty times,"

nd when old Feltram o' Cloostedd died, and the young lady his daughter was left a ward o' Sir Jasper Mardykes-an ill day for her, poor lass!--

Doctor Torvey instruc

nough amang the folk, and out o' doors she would na budge. And there was two wee barns; and she prayed him hard to confess the marriage, poor thing! But t'was a bootlese bene, and he would not allow they should bear his name, but their mother's; he was a hard man, and hed the bit in his teeth,

avelling with Sir Bale so long is a

removing his pipe for a moment;

ng, and the boatman saw it too; and they rowed for it, both pulling might and main; but after a mile or so they could see it no more, and gave over. The next that saw it was the vicar, I forget his name now-but he was up the lake to a funeral at Mortlock Church; and coming back with a bit of a sail up, just passin' Snakes Island, what should they hear on a sudden but a wowl like a death-cry, shrill and bleak, as made the very blood hoot in their veins; and looking along the water not a hundred yards away, saw the same grizzled sight in the moonlight; so they turned the tiller, and came near enough to see her face-blea it was, and drenched wi' water-and she was above the lake to her middle, stiff as a post, holdin' the weeny barn out to them, and flyrin' [smiling scornfully] on them as they drew nigh her. They wer

Feltram that has been with h

ull. "The Feltrams and the Mardykes was sib, ye know; and that made what passed in the misfortune o' that young lady spok

llegitimate, you know, it is held-and the little that remained of the Feltram property went nearly fourscore years ago to the Mardykes, and this Philip is maintained by

" acquiesced

il-coach drew up at the door of the George and

veral trunks cased in canvas pitched into the hall, and by careful Tom and a boy lifted one on top of the other, behind the corner of the banister. It w