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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

CHAPTER II
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The actors in it were Lord L--- as if in a fit, with a man standing over him with a red beard.

He was by the side of a bath, over which a red lamp was distinctly shown.
"I then said: 'I am attending Lord L--- at present; there is very little the matter with him; he is not going to die; he will be all right very soon'.
"Well he got better for a week and was nearly well, but at the end of six or seven days after this I was called to see him suddenly.

He had inflammation of both lungs.
"I called in Sir William Jenner, but in six days he was a dead man.
There were two male nurses attending on him; one had been taken ill.
But when I saw the other, the dream of the duchess was exactly represented.

He was standing near a bath over the earl, and strange to say, his beard was red.

There was the bath with the red lamp over it.


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