"Do so," said I.
And I doubt not she will; for besides that, the Lees have always been attached to our family from the earliest times, the good gammer dearly loves a gossip, and nuts to her to be able at once to contradict Patience and to have the story at first hand. Yet, such is the love of all people for the marvellous, that I should not wonder if the ghost story should continue to be believed, and that for many generations. *
* She was right. It has been one of the family ghost stories ever since. There are enough of them to make a chronicle by themselves.—D. C.
[CHAPTER XXXI.]
June 30.
A GREAT event has happened, so unexpected that I don't believe it even yet.
Three days ago, as we were all sitting at supper, comes in Thomas and says, "Here is a gentleman from Cornwall to see you, Sir Stephen."
"Have him in, man!" says my father. "Would you keep him waiting?"