![]() ![]() There was two on ’em on the tap o’ the coach beside me. It is a shame for gentlemen to frighten a poor foolish child like I was. It was a fine moonlight night and I eat the apples, lookin’ out o’ the shay winda. I was crying when I got into the shay–that’s what we used to call it–and old John Mulbery that drove it, and was a good-natured fellow, bought me a handful of apples at the Golden Lion, to cheer me up a bit and he told me that there was a currant-cake, and tea, and pork-chops, waiting for me, all hot, in my aunt’s room at the great house. ![]() ![]() I was a bit frightened by the time I got to Lexhoe, and when I saw the carriage and horse, I wished myself back again with my mother at Hazelden. My aunt was the housekeeper there, and a sort o’ one-horse carriage was down at Lexhoe to take me and my box up to Applewale. I’m an old woman now and I was but thirteen my last birthday, the night I came to Applewale House. i.) in the story of Laura Mildmay, where it is put into the mouth of an old north-country nurse, Mrs. STORIES OF LOUGH GUIR MADAM CROWL’S GHOSTĬontributed anonymously to All the Year Round in 1870-1, but afterwards incorporated bodily into Chronicles of Golden Friars (1871, vol. Madam Crowl’s Ghost and Other Tales of MysteryĪN ACCOUNT OF SOME STRANGE DISTURBANCES IN AUNGIER STREET ![]()
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