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EXTRAORDINARY APPARITION.
walk in his park, but he put it off with a jest: “I had
rather, Sir,” said he, smiling, “ you would let me see that
fine old mansion-house, that is to be demolished to-mor-
row; methinks I’d fain see the house once, before you
pull it down.”
“ With all my heart,” says the gentleman ; so he took
him immediately up stairs, shewed him all the best apart-
ments, and all his fine furniture and fixtures ; and coming
to the head of the great stair-case where they came up,
offered to go down again.
“ But, Sir,” says the Doctor, “ shall we not go up a
little higher ?”
“There is nothing above,” says the gentleman, “but
garrets, and old lofts, full of rubbish, and a place to look
out into the turret and the clock-house.”
“ But, Sir, I should be glad to see it all, now we are
about, it,” says the Doctor. “ I should like to see the old
lofty towers and turrets, the magnificence of our ances-
tors, though they are out of fashion now : pray, let us see
all now we are about it.”
“ Why, it will tire you,” says the gentleman.
“ No, no I” says the Doctor, “if it don’t tire you who
have seen it so often, it won’t tire me, I assure you : pray
let us go up so away goes the gentleman, and the Doc-
tor after him.
After they had rambled over the wild part of an old
built house, which I need not describe, he passed by a
great room, the door of which was open, and in it a
great deal of old lumber. “ Pray what place is this?”
says the Doctor, looking in at the door, but not offering
to go in.
“ Oh! that is the room 1” says the gentleman softly,
(because there was a servant attending them) “that is
the room I told you of, where all the old rubbish lies-
the
EXTRAORDINARY APPARITION.
walk in his park, but he put it off with a jest: “I had
rather, Sir,” said he, smiling, “ you would let me see that
fine old mansion-house, that is to be demolished to-mor-
row; methinks I’d fain see the house once, before you
pull it down.”
“ With all my heart,” says the gentleman ; so he took
him immediately up stairs, shewed him all the best apart-
ments, and all his fine furniture and fixtures ; and coming
to the head of the great stair-case where they came up,
offered to go down again.
“ But, Sir,” says the Doctor, “ shall we not go up a
little higher ?”
“There is nothing above,” says the gentleman, “but
garrets, and old lofts, full of rubbish, and a place to look
out into the turret and the clock-house.”
“ But, Sir, I should be glad to see it all, now we are
about, it,” says the Doctor. “ I should like to see the old
lofty towers and turrets, the magnificence of our ances-
tors, though they are out of fashion now : pray, let us see
all now we are about it.”
“ Why, it will tire you,” says the gentleman.
“ No, no I” says the Doctor, “if it don’t tire you who
have seen it so often, it won’t tire me, I assure you : pray
let us go up so away goes the gentleman, and the Doc-
tor after him.
After they had rambled over the wild part of an old
built house, which I need not describe, he passed by a
great room, the door of which was open, and in it a
great deal of old lumber. “ Pray what place is this?”
says the Doctor, looking in at the door, but not offering
to go in.
“ Oh! that is the room 1” says the gentleman softly,
(because there was a servant attending them) “that is
the room I told you of, where all the old rubbish lies-
the