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Wonderful civility this! It emboldened me to ask a question

"Bessie, what is the matter with me? Am I ill?"

"You fell sick, I suppose, in the red-roo; you'll be

better soon, no doubt"

Bessie went into the housemaid's apartment, which was near I heard

her say "Sarah, come and sleep with me in the nursery; I daren't for ht die; it's such a

strange thing she should have that fit: I wonder if she saw

anything Missis was rather too hard"

Sarah came back with her; they both went to bed; they were

whispering together for half-an-hour before they fell asleep I

caught scraps of their conversation, from which I was able only too

distinctly to infer thepassed her, all dressed in white, and vanished"--"A great

black dog behind hiht in the churchyard just over his grave," &c &c

At last both slept: the fire and the candle went out For hastly wakefulness; strained