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The Ghost of Dr. Harris

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⏰ Время чтения 30 минут
💡 Опубликовано1900
🌏 Язык оригинала Английский
📌 Типы Рассказ , Рассказ

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A new fragment by the great American novelist
When Hawthorne was American consul at Liverpool, he was often a guest at the house of the late Mr. John Pemberton Heywood of that city. Upon one occasion when he was dining with the family he related a ghost story which Mrs. Heywood thought so remarkable that she asked him to write it out for her. This he did, apparently keeping no copy of the manuscript, for it has never appeared in any volume bearing his name. The manuscript has been for all these years in the possession of Mrs. Heywood's sister, the late Mrs. Richard Duncan, who has allowed it to be communicated in The Nineteenth Century for publication.
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I am afraid this ghost story will be a very faded aspect when transferred to paper. Whatever effect is had on you, or whatever charm it retains in your memory, is perhaps to be attributed to the favourable circumstances under which it was originally told.
We were sitting, I remember, late in the evening, in your drawing-room, where the lights of the chandelier were so muffled as to produce a delicious obscurity through which the fire diffused a dim red glow. In this rich twilight the feelings of the party had been properly attuned by some tales of English superstition, and the lady of Smithills Hall had just been describing that Bloody Footstep which marks the threshold of her old mansion, when your Yankee guest (zealous for the honour of his country, and desirous of proving that his dead compatriots have the same ghostly privileges as other dead people, if they think it worth while to use them) began a story of something wonderful that long ago happened to himself. Possibly in the verbal narrative he may have assumed a little more licence than would be allowable in a written record. For the sake of the artistic effect, he may then have thrown in, here and there, a few slight circumstances which he will not think it proper to retain in what he now puts forth as the sober statement of a veritable fact.
A good many years ago (it must be as many as fifteen, perhaps more, and while I was still a bachelor) I resided at Boston, in the United States. In that city there is a large and long-established library, styled the Athenaeum, connected with which is a reading-room, well supplied with foreign and American periodicals and newspapers. A splendid edifice has since been erected by the proprietors of the institution; but, at the period I speak of, it was contained within a large old mansion, formerly the town residence of an eminent citizen of Boston. The reading-room (a spacious hall, with the group of the Laocoon at one end, and the Belvedere Apollo at the other) was frequented by not a few elderly merchants, retired from business, by clergymen and lawyers, and by such literary men as we had amongst us. These good people were mostly old, leisurely, and somnolent, and used to nod and doze for hours together., with the newspapers before them?ever and anon recovering themselves as far as to read a word or two of the politics of the daysitting, as, as it were, on the boundary of the Land of Dreams, and having little to do with this world, except through the newspapers which they so tenaciously grasped.
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