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"I aht "Our

own features, and our own figures and airs, show a little too

intrusively through all the characters we assume We have so much

familiarity with one another's realities, that we cannot reinary sphere Let us have no ht; but, to make you what poor amends I can, hoould

you like to have end, on the spur of

thea fanciful little story, off-hand, in a

way that reatly more effective than it was usually found to be

when she afterwards elaborated the sareeted with acclamation

"Oh, a story, a story, by all irls "No

matter how marvellous; ill believe it, every word And let it be a

ghost story, if you please"

"No, not exactly a ghost story," answered Zenobia; "but so so

nearly like it that you shall hardly tell the difference And,

Priscilla, stand you before et my

inspiration out of your eyes They are very deep and dreaht"