touching the hills with silver, he returned towards the spot where he had first laid eyes on the grisly phantom, feeling that, after all, two ghosts were better than one, and that, by the aid of his new friend, he might safely grapple with the twins. On reaching the spot, however, a terrible sight met his gaze Something had evidently happened to the spectre, for the light had entirely faded from its hollow eyes, the gleaming falchion had fallen from its hand, and it was leaning up against the wall in a strained and uncomfortable attitude. He rushed forward and seized it in his arms, when, to his here the heal slipped off and rolled on the floor, the body assumed arecambient posture, and he found himself clasping a white dimity bed-crain, with a sweeping-brasit, a kitchen cleaver, and a hollow turping his Get! Unable to understand this curious transformation he clutched the placard with feverish haste, and afare, in the grey morning light, he read these fearful words:

TE OTIS GHOSTE

One True and Originale Spook of To Imitationes.

ill others are counterfeite.

The whole thing flashed across him. He had been tricked, foiled, altitted! The old Canterville look came into his eyes; he gmund litoothless gums together, and, raising his withered hands high ab his head, swore according to the picturesque phraseology of the antique school, that, when Chanticleer had wounded twice his merry horn, deeds of blood would be wrought and minder walk abroad with silent feet.

Wind-grisly-causing horror; recumbent-iying down; placard le sign for splay: spook-ghost; Imitationes-cop counterfeite-duplicate, swore according to the picturesque phraseology of the antique school-vocabulary and sentence structure used in earlier times; Chanticleer- a reference from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

Hardly had he finished this awful oath when, from the red tiled roof of a distant homestead, a cock crew. He laughed a long, low, bitter laugh, and waited. Hour after hour he waited, but the cock, for some strange reason, did not crow again. Finally, at half past seven, the arrival of the housemaids made him give up his fearful vigil, and he stalked back to his room, thinking of his vain oath and baffled purpose. There he consulted several books of ancient chivalry, of which he was exceedingly fond, and found that, on every occasion on which this oath had been used, Chanticleer had always crowed a second time. “Perdition seize the naughty fowl,” he muttered, “I have seen the day when, with my stout spear, I would have run him through the gorge, and made him crow for me an ’twere in death!” He then retired to a comfortable lead coffin, and stayed there till evening.

SUMMARY

The Blood-stain Changes Colours

The ghost did not appear for the rest of the week. The only strange thing that happened was the blood-stain, which they found on the library-floor every morning. It was also quite strange that the colour of the stain changed from time to time. Some mornings it was red, then brown or purple, or even green. These changes amuse the family very much, and bets on the colour were made every evening: The only person who did not enter into the joke was Virginia. For some unexplained reason, she was rather annoyed a at the sight of the blood-stain, and nearly cried the morning it was green.

Insulti Ghost Faces Humiliation

The second appearance of the ghost was on Sunday night. Shortly after the family had gone to bed they heard a fearful crash in the Word-Note: a cock crew – a rooster crowed.

hall. A suit of armour had fallen on the floor and in a chair sat the Canterville ghost rubbing his knees. It seemed that he had hurt himself. When the twins started shooting peas at him with their pea-shooters, the ghost stood up with an angry growl and passed through them like a mist. He also blew out the candle, leaving them all in total darkness. On top of the stairs he turned around and, in order to frighten the Otis boys, laughed his most horrible laugh. Just then, a door opened and Mrs Otis came out of her bedroom “I am afraid you are not well,” she said, “I have therefore brought you this bottle of medicine.” The ghost looked at her furiously, and then he disappeared.

When he reached his room, he was completely exhausted. This American family was extremely annoying. But what annoyed him most was that he had not been able to wear the suit of armour. Its weight had made him fall and hurt his knees.

Ghost’s Encounter with ‘Another Ghost’

For some days after this the ghost only left his room to renew the blood-stain. However, on Friday, the 17th of August, he tried to frighten the Otis family once again. At half-past ten the family went to bed. For some time, the ghost heard the twins laugh, but at a quarter past eleven all was still. So, at midnight he left his secret chamber and glided thr through the corridors. Suddenly, behind one corner, a horrible ghost stood right in front of him. As the Canterville ghost had never seen another ghost before, he was terribly frightened. He quickly hurried back to his room. But then he thought that he should go and speak to the other ghost. After all, two ghosts were better than one, and his new friend might help him to frighten the twins. However, when he came back to the spot. he found that this other ghost was not real, but only a white sheet which the twins had hung there to play a trick on him. Very upset. the Canterville ghost went back to his chamber. Ar

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