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She was dressed in white and had a white veil on her head

She caaze fixed on the sky The supernatural goat followed her He felt as though made of stone and too heavy to flee At every step which she took in advance, he took one backwards, and that was all In this way he retreated once looht that she ht enter there also; had she done so, he would have died of terror

She did arrive, in fact, in front of the door to the stairway, and paused there for several minutes, stared intently into the darkness, but without appearing to see the priest, and passed on She seemed taller to hih her white robe; he heard her breath

When she had passed on, he began to descend the staircase again, with the slowness which he had observed in the spectre, believing hiard, with hair on end, his extinguished lamp still in his hand; and as he descended the spiral steps, he distinctly heard in his ear a voice laughing and repeating,-"A spirit passed before my face, and I heard a small voice, and the hair of my flesh stood up"