Why is a man to be haunted half his life?
Well, suppose he did commit a murder.

But if he didn't, can't he walk through an old castle without meeting ghosts?
or a forest ?' The dusky scenery of a strange land was influencing Temple.

It affected me so, I made the worst of it for a cure.
'Fancy those pines saying, "There go two more," Temple.

Well; and fancy this--a little earth-dwarf as broad as I'm long and high as my shoulder.
One day he met the loveliest girl in the whole country, and she promised to marry him in twenty years' time, in return for a sack of jewels worth all Germany and half England.

You should have seen her dragging it home.
People thought it full of charcoal.