"It is simply a hallucination," said he to himself, "and merely the result of having heard the absurd nonsense of what that ignorant and credulous old friar related tonight concerning my family.

Still it is strange, because I am cool and sober, and in the perfect use of my senses.

This is the same appearance which I saw before near the Haunted House, and of which I never could get any account.

What if there should be-- ?" He checked himself and proceeded to his lodgings, with an intention of returning home the next morning; which he did, after having failed in the murderous mission which he undertook to accomplish.
"Mother," said he, after his return home, "all is lost: Alice Goodwin has been restored to perfect health by Valentine Greatrakes, and my twelve hundred a year is gone for ever.

How can we enter into negotiations with that sharp old scoundrel, Lord Cockle-town, now?
I assure you I had her at the last gasp, when Greatrakes came in and restored her to perfect health before my face.