The Canterville Ghost: An Amusing Chronicle of the Tribulations of the Ghost of Canterville Chase when His Ancestral Halls Became the Home of the American Minister to the Court of St. JamesJ. W. Luce and Company, 1906 - 123 strán (strany) |
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American Minister Bexley blood blood-stain boys Brockley Canterville Chase Canterville Ghost Cecil Chanticleer COACHES WALKED cordingly corridor Court of St cried daughter death door Duchess Duke of Cheshire emerald-green eyes falchion fallen fearful floor frightened GHOST GLIDED ginia gipsies girl grave half-past hand HARVARD COLLEGE head HEARSE HEAVY JUG JUG OF WATER kissed laugh little Duke little Virginia looking round Lord Canter Lord Canterville lovely Miss Virginia morning murmured never night o'clock old housekeeper oriel window OSCAR WILDE Otis family Otis's Paragon Detergent pony POOR GHOST quarter-past Rising Sun Lubricator rusty dagger Salomé SATIRICAL REMARKS SERVANTS WITH LIGHTED SEVERE FALL shrieks Sir Simon skeleton sleep smil spot stain staircase station-master Stilton strange SUDDENLY THERE LEAPED Tapestry Chamber terrible thing twins Umney United States Minister VIRGINIA E wainscoting Washington WATER FELL RIGHT wife window young Duke
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Strana 17 - THE storm raged fiercely all that night, but nothing of particular note occurred. The next morning, however, when they came down to breakfast, they found the terrible stain of blood once again on the floor. ' I don't think it can be the fault of the Paragon Detergent,' said Washington, ' for I have tried it with everything. It must be the ghost.
Strana 62 - The final blow he received occurred on the 19th of September. He had gone downstairs to the great entrance-hall, feeling sure that there, at any rate, he would be quite unmolested, and was amusing himself by making satirical remarks on the large Saroni photographs of the United States Minister and his wife, which had now taken the place of the Canterville family pictures. He was simply but neatly clad in a long shroud, spotted with churchyard...
Strana 6 - Indeed, in many respects, she was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Strana 21 - ... the lights were out. Some time after, Mr. Otis was awakened by a curious noise in the corridor, outside his room. It sounded like the clank of metal, and seemed to be coming nearer every moment. He got up at once, struck a match, and looked at the time. It was exactly one o'clock. He was quite calm, and felt his pulse, which was not at all feverish. The strange noise still continued, and with it he heard distinctly the sound of footsteps. He put on his slippers, took a small oblong phial out...
Strana 42 - As for the twins, he was quite determined to teach them a lesson. The first thing to be done was, of course, to sit upon their chests, so as to produce the stifling sensation of nightmare. Then, as their beds were quite close to each other, to stand between them in the form of a green, icy-cold corpse, till they became...
Strana 117 - Cheshire was presented at the Queen's first drawing-room on the occasion of her marriage, her jewels were the universal theme of admiration. For Virginia received the coronet, which is the reward of all good little American girls, and was married to her boy-lover as soon as he came of age. They were both so charming, and they loved each other so much, that every one was delighted at the match, except the old Marchioness of Dumbleton, who had tried to catch the Duke for one of her seven unmarried...
Strana 13 - Following her, they passed through the fine Tudor hall into the library, a long, low room, panelled in black oak, at the end of which was a large stained-glass window. Here they found tea laid out for them, and, after taking off their wraps, they sat down and began to look round, while Mrs. Umney waited on them. Suddenly Mrs. Otis caught sight of a dull red stain on the floor just by the...
Strana 19 - The conversation in no way turned upon ghosts, so there were not even those primary conditions of receptive expectation which so often precede the presentation of psychical phenomena. The subjects discussed, as I have since learned from Mr. Otis, were merely such as form the ordinary conversation of cultured Americans of the better class, such as the immense superiority of Miss Fanny Davenport over...
Strana 21 - I really must insist on your oiling those chains. and have brought you for that purpose a small bottle of the Tammany Rising Sun Lubricator. It is said to be completely efficacious upon one application, and there are several testimonials to that effect on the wrapper from some of our most eminent native divines. I shall leave it here for you by the bedroom candles, and will be happy to supply you with more should you require it.
Strana 24 - There was evidently no time to be lost, so, hastily adopting the Fourth Dimension of Space as a means of escape, he vanished through the wainscoting, and the house became quite quiet.