ghost

Jammes had told her story ever so quickly, as though the ghost were at her heels, and was quite out of breath at the finish.

Mother says the ghost doesn't like being talked about."

Well," she continued, turning to the boy, "and whose ghost was it?"

Events may yet prove that idea to be a delusion, Miss Halcombe; but the belief is strong in me, at this moment, that the fancied ghost in the churchyard, and the writer of the anonymous letter, are one and the same person."

The whispers of wind became puffs, the sails filled, the Ghost moved.

I could not feel the full force of the wind, for we were running with it; but from my lofty perch I looked down as though outside the Ghost and apart from her, and saw the shape of her outlined sharply against the foaming sea as she tore along instinct with life.

it is strange to see how fearless some men are: I never could bring myself to touch anything belonging to a dead man, on any account.--He seemed frightened enough too at the ghost, I thought.

I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.

"'This,' I answered, 'must be as it may please heaven, but tell me and tell me and tell me true, I see my poor mother's ghost close by us; she is sitting by the blood without saying a word, and though I am her own son she does not remember me and speak to me; tell me, Sir, how I can make her know me.'

Any ghost that you let taste of the blood will talk with you like a reasonable being, but if you do not let them have any blood they will go away again.'

`Man of the worldly mind!' replied the Ghost, `do you believe in me or not?'

`It is required of every man,'the Ghost returned,`that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.