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In the five Northumbrian counties you will scarcely find sobleak, ugly, and yet, in a savage way, so picturesque a moor asDardale Moss. The moor itself spreads north, south, east, and west,a great undulating sea of black peat and heath. What we may term its shores are wooded wildly with birch, hazel,and dwarf-oak. No towering mountains surround it, ... more>>
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Chapter I. The George and Dragon The pretty little town of Golden Friars--standing by the marginof the lake, hemmed round by an amphitheatre of purple mountain,rich in tint and furrowed by ravines, high in air, when the tallgables and narrow windows of its ancient graystone houses, and thetower of the old church, from which every evening the curfew ... more>>
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Prologue. Martin Hesselius, the German Physician Though carefully educated in medicine and surgery, I have neverpractised either. The study of each continues, nevertheless, tointerest me profoundly. Neither idleness nor caprice caused mysecession from the honourable calling which I had just entered. Thecause was a very trifling scratch inflicted by ... more>>
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Take my word for it, there is no such thing as an ancientvillage, especially if it has seen better days, unillustrated byits legends of terror. You might as well expect to find a decayedcheese without mites, or an old house without rats, as an antiqueand dilapidated town without an authentic population of goblins.Now, although this class of inhabit ... more>>
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In looking over the papers of my late valued and respectedfriend, Francis Purcell, who for nearly fifty years discharged thearduous duties of a parish priest in the south of Ireland, I metwith the following document. It is one of many such, for he was acurious and industrious collector of old local traditions--acommodity in which the quarter where ... more>>
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Being a Fourth Extract from the Legacy of the Late F.Purcell, P. P. of Drumcoolagh "All this he told with some confusion andDismay, the usual consequence of dreamsOf the unpleasant kind, with none at handTo expound their vain and visionary gleams.I've known some odd ones which seemed really plannedProphetically, as that which one deems'A strange co ... more>>
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About thirty years ago I was selected by two rich old maids tovisit a property in that part of Lancashire which lies near thefamous forest of Pendle, with which Mr. Ainsworth's "LancashireWitches" has made us so pleasantly familiar. My business was tomake partition of a small property, including a house and demesne,to which they had a long time bef ... more>>
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The sunsets were red, the nights were long, and the weatherpleasantly frosty; and Christmas, the glorious herald of the NewYear, was at hand, when an event--still recounted by winterfiresides, with a horror made delightful by the mellowing influenceof years--occurred in the beautiful little town of Golden Friars,and signalized, as the scene of its ... more>>
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Eastward of the old city of Limerick, about ten Irish milesunder the range of mountains known as the Slieveelim hills, famousas having afforded Sarsfield a shelter among their rocks andhollows, when he crossed them in his gallant descent upon thecannon and ammunition of King William, on its way to thebeleaguering army, there runs a very old and nar ... more>>
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Prologue Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, DoctorHesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanieswith a reference to his Essay on the strange subject which the MS.illuminates. This mysterious subject he treats, in that Essay, with his usuallearning and acumen, and with remarkable directness andcondensation. It ... more>>
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[The Editor of the University Magazine submits thefollowing very remarkable statement, with every detail of which hehas been for some years acquainted, upon the ground that it affordsthe most authentic and ample relation of a series of marvellousphenoma, in nowise connected with what is technically termed"spiritualism," which he has anywhere met wi ... more>>
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It is not worth telling, this story of mine--at least, not worthwriting. Told, indeed, as I have sometimes been called upon to tellit, to a circle of intelligent and eager faces, lighted up by agood after-dinner fire on a winter's evening, with a cold windrising and wailing outside, and all snug and cosy within, it hasgone off--though I say it, who ... more>>
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Chapter I A great multitude of people filled the church, crowded togetherin the old black pews, standing closely thronged in the nave andaisles, pressing shoulder to shoulder even in the two chapels onthe right and left of the apse, a vast gathering of pale men andwomen whose eyes were sad and in whose faces was written thehistory of their nation. ... more>>
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Chapter I. Two years of service in the Zouaves had wrought a change inAnastase Gouache, the painter. He was still a light man, nervouslybuilt, with small hands and feet, and a delicate face; but constantexposure to the weather had browned his skin, and a life ofunceasing activity had strengthened his sinews and hardened hiscompact frame. The cluste ... more>>
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Chapter I The Baroness Volterra drove to the Palazzo Conti in the heart ofRome at nine o'clock in the morning, to be sure of finding DonnaClementina at home. She had tried twice to telephone, on theprevious afternoon, but the central office had answered that "thecommunication was interrupted." She was very anxious to seeClementina at once, in order ... more>>
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