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Robert Elsmere

CHAPTER III
17/43

I sometimes think they talk it to each other as much as ever, but some of them won't talk it to you and me at all.

And as to superstitions, the only ghost story I know that still has some hold on popular belief is the one which attaches to this mountain here, High Fell, at the end of this valley.' He paused a moment.

A salutary sense has begun to penetrate even modern provincial society, that no man may tell a ghost story without leave.
Rose threw a merry glance at him.

They two were very old friends.

Dr.
Baker had pulled out her first teeth and given her a sixpence afterward for each operation.


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