. The astrologer of the nineteenth century . eringbird; and afterwards that a woman appeared to him in white ap-parel, and said to him, Prepare to die, you will not exist threedays.* His lordship was much alarmed, and called to a servant * According to the narrative of a relative of Lady Lyttleton, the following isthe version of the circumstances as related by Lord Lyttleton:— Two nights before, on his retiring to his bed, after his servant was dismissedand his light extinguished, he had heard a noise resembling the fluttering of adove at his chamber window. This attracted his attention to the
. The astrologer of the nineteenth century . eringbird; and afterwards that a woman appeared to him in white ap-parel, and said to him, Prepare to die, you will not exist threedays.* His lordship was much alarmed, and called to a servant * According to the narrative of a relative of Lady Lyttleton, the following isthe version of the circumstances as related by Lord Lyttleton:— Two nights before, on his retiring to his bed, after his servant was dismissedand his light extinguished, he had heard a noise resembling the fluttering of adove at his chamber window. This attracted his attention to the spot •, when,looking in the direction of the sound, he saw the figure of an unhappy female,whom he had seduced and deserted, and who, when deserted, had put a violentend to her own existence, standing in the aperture of the window from which thefluttering sound had proceeded. The form approached the foot of the bed :—the room was preternaturally light j the objects of the chamber were distinctly JuM^Wt******* °f a ^nt U \ovb TAeform approacAcd tA* tAc room wasprctcrnatural/y liyAt. tAc oA/icts ottAc CAam&er nerc dis-■iinctlv vLstik, wUBty& pointing toaJ)ia/ wAicA stood on tfi< mantel pice oftAc tAimnc} tie AyursmtA a severe solemnity of rout- <t manner, announced to tAc appalled ir consume stnclen Man. tActtattAat tenAourcn the tAirdday a/frrtA v/ /tafion. A/sZdc andS/as woidd Ac cone/acted. ^^ ^, r/ _ j Icmde/i. William. CAartten WnyAi. 6$. Fater Afoster Haw. ON SPIRITS AND DEMONS. 547 from a closet adjoining, who found him much agitated, and in aprofuse perspiration : the circumstance had a considerable effect allthe next day on his lordships spirits. On the third day, while hislordship was at breakfast with the above personages, he said, If Ilive over to-night, I shall have jockied the ghost, for this is thethird day/ The whole party presently set off for Pitt Place, wherethey had not long arrived, before his lordship was visited by one
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