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three ghost stories(三个鬼故事)-第16部分

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     Under   these   circumstances;   we   were   walking   drearily   along;   and   I 

especially; with my。 Moosulmaun responsibilities heavy on me; was in a 

very low state of mind; when a strange man accosted Miss Griffin; and; 

after walking on at her side for a little while and talking with her; looked 

at   me。  Supposing   him  to   be   a   minion of   the   law;  and   that   my  hour   was 

come; I instantly ran away; with the general purpose of making for Egypt。 

     The whole Seraglio cried out; when they saw me making off as fast as 

my legs would carry me (I had an impression that the first turning on the 

left;   and   round   by   the   public…house;   would   be   the   shortest   way   to   the 

Pyramids); Miss   Griffin   screamed after   me;   the faithless Vizier   ran   after 

me; and the boy at the turnpike dodged me into a corner; like a sheep; and 

cut me off。 Nobody scolded me when I was taken and brought back; Miss 

Griffin only said; with a stunning gentleness; This was very curious! Why 

had I run away when the gentleman looked at me? 

     If I had had any breath to answer with; I dare say I should have made 

no answer; having no breath; I certainly made none。 Miss Griffin and the 

strange man took me between them; and walked me back to the palace in a 



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sort of state; but not at all (as I couldn't help feeling; with astonishment) in 

culprit state。 

     When   we   got   there;   we   went   into   a   room   by   ourselves;   and   Miss 

Griffin called in to her assistance; Mesrour; chief of the dusky guards of 

the Hareem。 Mesrour; on being whispered to; began to shed tears。 〃Bless 

you; my precious!〃 said that officer; turning to me; 〃your Pa's took bitter 

bad!〃 

     I asked; with a fluttered heart; 〃Is he very ill?〃 

     〃Lord   temper   the   wind   to   you;   my   lamb!〃   said   the   good   Mesrour; 

kneeling down;  that   I   might have   a   comforting shoulder   for   my  head   to 

rest on; 〃your Pa's dead!〃 

     Haroun Alraschid   took  to   flight   at   the   words;   the   Seraglio   vanished; 

from that moment; I never again saw one of the eight of the fairest of the 

daughters of men。 

     I was taken home; and there was Debt at home as well as Death; and 

we had a sale there。 My own little bed was so superciliously looked upon 

by a Power unknown to me; hazily called 〃The Trade;〃 that a brass coal… 

scuttle; a roasting…jack; and a birdcage; were obliged to be put into it to 

make a Lot of it; and then it went for a song。 So I heard mentioned; and I 

wondered what song; and thought what a dismal song it must have been to 

sing! 

     Then;   I   was   sent   to   a   great;   cold;   bare;   school   of   big   boys;   where 

everything to eat and wear was thick and clumpy; without being enough; 

where   everybody;   largo   and   small;   was   cruel;   where   the   boys   knew   all 

about the sale; before I got there; and asked me what I had fetched; and 

who   had   bought   me;   and   hooted   at   me;   〃Going;   going;   gone!〃   I   never 

whispered   in   that   wretched   place   that   I   had   been   Haroun;   or   had   had   a 

Seraglio:   for;   I   knew   that   if   I   mentioned   my   reverses;   I   should   be   so 

worried; that I should have to drown myself in the muddy pond near the 

playground; which looked like the beer。 

     Ah me; ah me! No other ghost has haunted the boy's room; my friends; 

since I have occupied it; than the ghost of my own childhood; the ghost of 

my own innocence; the ghost of my own airy belief。 Many a time have I 

pursued the phantom: never with this man's stride of mine to come up with 



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it;  never   with these   man's   hands   of   mine   to   touch it;  never  more   to   this 

man's heart of mine to hold it in its purity。 And here you see me working 

out;   as   cheerfully   and   thankfully   as   I   may;   my   doom   of   shaving   in   the 

glass   a   constant   change   of   customers;   and   of   lying   down   and   rising   up 

with the skeleton allotted to me for my mortal companion。 



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            THE TRIAL FOR MURDER。 



       I   have  always    noticed   a   prevalent    want   of   courage;    even   among 

persons   of   superior   intelligence   and   culture;   as   to   imparting   their   own 

psychological experiences when those have been of a strange sort。 Almost 

all men are afraid that what they could relate in such wise would find no 

parallel or response in a listener's internal life; and might be suspected or 

laughed at。 A truthful traveller; who should have seen some extraordinary 

creature in the likeness of a sea…serpent; would have no fear of mentioning 

it; but the same traveller; having had some singular presentiment; impulse; 

vagary of thought; vision (so…called); dream; or other remarkable mental 

impression; would hesitate considerably before he would own to it。 To this 

reticence   I   attribute   much   of   the   obscurity   in   which   such   subjects   are 

involved。   We   do   not   habitually   communicate   our   experiences   of   these 

subjective   things   as   we   do   our   experiences   of   objective   creation。   The 

consequence is; that the general stock of experience in this regard appears 

exceptional; and really is so; in respect of being miserably imperfect。 

     In   what    I  am   going    to  relate;  I  have   no   intention    of  setting   up; 

opposing;  or   supporting;   any  theory  whatever。  I   know   the   history  of   the 

Bookseller      of   Berlin;   I  have   studied    the   case   of  the   wife   of  a  late 

Astronomer Royal as related by Sir David Brewster; and I have followed 

the minutest details of a much more remarkable case of Spectral Illusion 

occurring within my private circle of friends。 It may be necessary to state 

as to this last; that the sufferer (a lady) was in no degree; however distant; 

related   to   me。   A   mistaken    assumption      on   that   head   might   suggest    an 

explanation of a part of my own case;but only a part;which would be 

wholly without foundation。 It cannot be referred to my inheritance of any 

developed peculiarity; nor had I ever before any at all similar experience; 

nor have I ever had any at all similar experience since。 

     It does not signify how many years ago; or how few; a certain murder 

was committed in England; which attracted great attention。 We hear more 

than   enough   of   murderers   as   they   rise   in   succession   to   their   atrocious 

eminence; and I would bury the memory of this parti
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