Where ghosts walk : the haunts of familiar characters in history and literature . recatingsmile at the trio of fashionably attiredwomen he is escorting. The one directlyaddressed gathers up her black satin skirtfrom the sawdusty floor, includes the ap-pointments and inmates of the room inone sweeping, shuddering glance, and sayshastily,— O 7io ! thank you ever so much,but I really could nt tJmik of it! Nobody, excepting ourselves, looks atthe party that has the effect of taking upall the spare room in the place, and mak-ing the ceiling lower, the wainscoted wallsmore dingy, in a way peculiar t
Where ghosts walk : the haunts of familiar characters in history and literature . recatingsmile at the trio of fashionably attiredwomen he is escorting. The one directlyaddressed gathers up her black satin skirtfrom the sawdusty floor, includes the ap-pointments and inmates of the room inone sweeping, shuddering glance, and sayshastily,— O 7io ! thank you ever so much,but I really could nt tJmik of it! Nobody, excepting ourselves, looks atthe party that has the effect of taking upall the spare room in the place, and mak-ing the ceiling lower, the wainscoted wallsmore dingy, in a way peculiar to over-dressed Americans. The cicerone is theircountryman, but of a different is intellio^ent reo^ret in his backwardglance as he follows the disdainful bevyin their retreat. We get a glimpse ofthem through a window, when they emergefrom the shabby doorway. They are stillgathering their skirts about them, and picktheir way gingerly upon their boot-tipsover the wet stones of Wine Court. So far as we can see, the flutter andbustle produced by their hurried round of. 1?>^.-^ 1
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