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"Yes, yes; but that won't do. I don't want to have to drive ten miles to see somebody else's ghost. I want one of my own on the premises. Is there a ghost at Lyng?" YES YES BUT THAT WON'T DO I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO DRIVE TEN MILES TO SEE SOMEBODY ELSE'S GHOST I WANT ONE OF MY OWN ON THE PREMISES IS THERE A GHOST AT LYING
' would make me think it had been bought out of an exhibition, with the pieces numbered, and set up again." And they had proceeded to enumerate, with humorous precision, their various suspicions and exactions, refusing to believe that the house their cousin recommended was really Tudor till they learned it had no heating system, or that the village church was literally in the grounds till she assured them of the deplorable uncertainty of the water supply. "It's too uncomfortable to be true!" Edward Boyne had continued to exult as the avowal of each disadvantage was successively wrung from her; but he had cut short his rhapsody to ask, with a sudden relapse to distrust: "And the ghost? You've been concealing from us the fact that there is no ghost!" Mary, at the moment, had laughed with him, yet almost with her laugh, being possessed of several sets of independent perceptions, had noted a sudden flatness of tone in Alida's answering hilarity. "Oh, Dorsetshire's full of ghosts, you know. OSELY INSISTED THE LEAST HINT OF CONVENIENCE WOULD MAKE ME THINK IT HAD BEEN BOUGHT OUT OF AN EXHIBITION WITH THE PIECES NUMBERED AND SET UP AGAIN AND THEY HAD PROCEEDED TO ENUMERATE WITH HUMOROUS PRECISION THEIR VARIOUS DOUBTS AND DEMANDS REFUSING TO BELIEVE THAT THE HOUSE THEIR FRIEND RECOMMENDED WAS REALLY TUDOR UNTIL THEY LEARNED IT HAD NO HEATING SYSTEM OR THAT THE VILLAGE CHURCH WAS LITERALLY IN THE GROUNDS UNTIL SHE ASSURED THEM OF THE DEPLORABLE UNCERTAINTY OF THE WATER SUPPLY IT'S TOO UNCOMFORTABLE TO BE TRUE EDWARD BOYNE HAD CONTINUED TO EXULT AS THE AVOWAL OF EACH DISADVANTAGE WAS SUCCESSIVELY WRUNG FROM HER BUT HE HAD CUT SHORT HIS RHAPSODY TO ASK WITH A RELAPSE TO DISTRUST AND THE GHOST YOU'VE BEEN CONCEALING FROM US THE FACT THAT THERE IS NO GHOST MARY AT THE MOMENT HAD LAUGHED WITH HIM YET ALMOST WITH HER LAUGH BEING POSSESSED OF SEVERAL SETS OF INDEPENDENT PERCEPTIONS HAD BEEN STRUCK BY A NOTE OF FLATNESS IN ALIDA'S ANSWERING HILARITY OH DORSET'S FULL OF GHOSTS YOU KNOW
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