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like a cobweb that the flies have been thro'; it would tear up into such pretty handkerchiefs!

Lady S. Will it? as large as those I commonly wear?

Pry. O no! I don't mean such handkerchiefs as you would wear, my Lady, but just

Lady S. Don't tease me now.—Have you heard any of those noises to-night? (seating herself in a chair near the front of the stage.)

Pry. La no! my Lady; did you hear any thing?

Lady S. No, nothing at all: why do you look so frighten'd?

Pry. I'm sure the very thoughts of it has made my teeth to chatter like a spoon in an empty dish. I never heard of such things being heard in any house, except the old Castle of Allcrest, just before the Earl, your grandfather, died. Mercy on us! there was no such noises heard in our village.

Lady S. Apparitions seldom visit people of low condition, Pry.

Pry. God be praised for it! I hope this here will be of the same way of thinking. I would not be a great lady and have ghosts grunting at my bed side for the whole universal world. If you please, my Lady, I should like to go up to Susan as soon as may be, pardon my boldness, for she is as frighten'd as I am; and I may chance to meet something in the stairs, if I am much later; and I know very well, my Lady, you're not afraid.

Lady S. No, I'm not afraid, but I don't know how—I have a little of I don't know what, that has