The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

By: Dickens, Charles

Everybody said so.Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, aslikely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken, in most instances, such a weary while to find out how wrong, that theauthority is proved to be fallible. Everybody may sometimes be right; "but that's no rule,"as the ghost of Giles Scroggins says in the ballad.The dread word, GHOST, recalls me.Everybody said he looked like a haunted man. The extent of my present claim foreverybody is, that they were so far right. He did.Who could have seen his hollow cheek; his sunken brilliant eye; his black-attired figure, indefinably grim, although well-knit and well-proportioned; his grizzled hair hanging, liketangled sea-weed, about his face, -as if he had been, through his whole life, a lonely markfor the chafing and beating of the great deep of humanity, -but might have said he lookedlike a haunted man?Who could have observed his manner, taciturn, thoughtful, gloomy, shadowed by habitualreserve, retiring always and jocund never, with a distraught air of reverting to a bygoneplace and time, or of listening to some old echoes in his mind, but might have said it wasthe manner of a haunted man?Who could have heard his voice, slow-speaking, deep, and grave, with a natural fulness andmelody in it which he seemed to set himself against and stop, but might have said it was thevoice of a haunted

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08F719JDK
• ISBN13: 9798672918440
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"