Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873 / 2008-06-24 00:00:00
EBOOK MADAM CROWL'S GHOST / DEAD SEXTON ***
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MADAM CROWL'S GHOST and THE DEAD SEXTON
By
Joseph Sheridan LeFanu
Both stories were originally published in 1871.
CONTENTS
Madam Crowl's Ghost
The Dead Sexton
MADAM CROWL'S GHOST
Twenty years have passed since you last saw Mrs. Jolliffe's tall slim
figure. She is now past seventy, and can't have many mile-stones more
to count on the journey that will bring her to her long home. The hair
has grown white as snow, that is parted under her cap, over her
shrewd, but kindly face. But her figure is still straight, and her
step light and active.
She has taken of late years to the care of adult invalids, having
surrendered to younger hands the little people who inhabit cradles,
and crawl on all-fours. Those who remember that good-natured face
among the earliest that emerge from the darkness of non-entity, and
who owe to their first lessons in the accomplishment of walking, and a
delighted appreciation of their first babblings and earliest teeth,
have "spired up" into tall lads and lasses, now. Some of them shew
streaks of white by this time, in brown locks, "the bonny gouden"
hair, that she was so proud to brush and shew to admiring mothers, who
are seen no more on the green of Golden Friars, and whose names are
traced now on the flat grey stones in the church-yard.
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