...hand or foot within the precinct came To rectify or ravage. For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted ! ***** Hood. MAY MORNING.1 Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East,...

...something of the even composure of her spirits. CHAPTER XXIII. ' O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted." HOoD. .DARKER and heavier the gloom fell over Marchmont. Autumn succeeded to summer, but a deeper shadow...

...ev'ry thrilling nerve and fibre feel So ague-like a shiver. For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted ; And said,...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted ! If but a rat had linger' d in the house, To lure the thought into a social channel ! But not a rat...

...veiled the tapestry at all, Or portrait frowning grimly. " O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the air, ' The place is haunted !' " And with the trembling curiosity of childhood, she had once visited...

...uniier some prodigious ban Of excommunication. O'er all tlipre hunj; a shadow and a fear ; А Бспае of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the car, The. place is haunted I Yet the sunshine casts its rays into the old building, as it must, were...

...though suddenly, more desolate and hastening to decay. " O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted." But, unalarmed by those silly suspicions, Mr. Wye took very practical steps for Phoebe's safety. The...

...growing, till one almost dreads the ever-recurring refrain — "O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper to the ear, The place is Haunted." The Elm-tree is a poem on similar lines, but it is not nearly so...

...the " Castle Mona " hotel, and also to the close of this eventful day. CHAPTER XXV. BAD NEWS. " Oh ! very gloomy is the house of woe, Where tears are falling...solemnities which show That death is in the dwelling. "Oh! very — very dreary is the room Where love— domestic love — no longer nestles, But smitten...

...hand or foot within the precinct came To rectify or ravage. "For over all there hung a cloud of fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, ' The house is haunted !' " The centipede along the threshold crept ; The cobweb hung across in mazy tangle,...

...apparitions met the straining eye-ball upon every landing— " For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted I" and he retired affrighted, with the big, cold drops upon his brow, and it must be a powerful motive...