Actual appearances, as we have said, are
not common, and just as all persons do not hear the sounds, so many do
not see the appearance, even when it is visible to others in the same
room. As an example, take a very mild and lady-like case of haunting.
THE GIRL IN PINK
The following anecdote was told to myself, a few months after the
curious event, by the three witnesses in the case. They were
connections of my own, the father was a clergyman of the Anglican
Church; he, his wife and their daughter, a girl of twenty, were the
"percipients". All are cheerful, sagacious people, and all, though
they absolutely agreed as to the facts in their experience, professed
an utter disbelief in "ghosts," which the occurrence has not affected
in any way. They usually reside in a foreign city, where there is a
good deal of English society. One day they left the town to lunch
with a young fellow-countryman who lived in a villa in the
neighbourhood. There he was attempting to farm a small estate, with
what measure of success the story does not say. His house was kept by
his sister, who was present, of course, at the little luncheon party.
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