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destruction. The lover s cries aroused the house, 

 and brought out the trembling mother to behold her 

 daughter still undisturbed, with the horror of sudden 

 and cruel death upon her unmitigated. And amid 

 the shrieks of the parent and the lamentations of the 

 servants, the maddened lover, who had been attacked 

 with a frenzy that never left him, heaped reproaches, 

 and retaliated with curses on her whose curses 

 seemed in his insanity to have caused this terrible 

 calamity. 



Of the parties to this tragedy there were none liv 

 ing in three months ; they were buried in adjoining 

 graves, at the request of the mother, who had it done 

 apparently as an atonement. This palliation did not 

 seem to answer, however, for on the seventh of every 

 month, at the hour of eleven, a ghostly figure slips 

 out of the front door, whether it is locked or not, and 

 with a scream falls from the piazza ; a male figure 

 suddenly appears rent with agony at its side, and 

 then another female wringing her hands in despair, 

 while the male gesticulates fiercely at her. Such is 

 this veritable history as I have it from the oldest in 

 habitant, and it is no wonder that people do not like 

 living; in a house with such associates. 



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I do not often use our horse ; I am not fond of 

 driving, and have a vivid recollection of the early 



