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I am still near, Watching the smiles I prized on earth, Your converse mild, your blameless mirth.[64

Date of account: Late nineteenth-century compilation
Source: The Ghost World
Reference: The Ghost World · selected passage 118
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Miss Jackson also tells[187] how 'Squire Blount's ghost' long haunted Kinlet Hall, because his daughter had married a page-boy

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Miss Jackson also tells[187] how 'Squire Blount's ghost' long haunted Kinlet Hall, because his daughter had married a page-boy. At last it was found necessary to pull down Kinlet Old Hall, and to build it again on a fresh site, 'for he would even come into the room where they were at dinner, and drive his coach and four white horses across the dinner table.' But 'at last they got a number of parsons together and lighted candles, and read and read till all the candles were burnt out but one, and so they quieted him, and laid him in the sea. There was, it is reported, a little bottle under his monument in Kinlet Church, and if that were broken he would come again.

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