5/27/2023 0 Comments Weird stories charlotte riddell![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Accident had thrown us together, and accident had driven us under the minister’s hospitable roof. We were seated, an incongruous company of ten persons, in the best room of an old manse among the Scottish hills. On the occasion in question, however, we had donned our best behaviour, a garment which did not sit ungracefully on some of us and our host, who was about to draw out from the stores of memory one narrative for our entertainment, was scarcely the person before whom even Jack Hill, the sceptic, would have cared to express his cynical and unbelieving views. “We quite understand that,” said the sceptic of our party, who was wont, in the security of friendly intercourse, to characterise all such prefaces as mere introductions to some tremendously exaggerated tale. “Before commencing my story, I wish to state it is perfectly true in every particular.” ![]()
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