He
continued in an undertone--
"Goody Shelton says she walks in the forest; and that her wraith so
frightened Humphrey's horse that it would not budge a straw's breadth,
just beside the great oak in the Broad Holm, before you get into the
forest on the other side towards Slaidburn."
Anthony was, at this precise moment, cramming the last visible remains
of a goose-pie into the same place where he had before deposited half
the good things on the table, anointing his beard with their savoury
outskirts,--when suddenly his chin dropped, his face assumed a sort of
neutral tinge, and his whole form appeared to grow stiff with terror. He
made several efforts to speak; but the following words only could be
distinguished:--
"I was sure it would be a ghost!"
"What!--a ghost!--Where!" anxiously inquired Geoffery.
"Just by the great oak in the Broad Holm, on the other side of the
forest."
"What was it like?"
"I cannot tell; and Michael pretended he did not see it!"
"Thou canst surely show the appearance it put on."
"Something, as it might be, like unto a woman, crossed our path twice,
and within a stone's throw.
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