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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 158
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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There is the well-known Beresford ghost tale, about which so many accounts have been given

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There is the well-known Beresford ghost tale, about which so many accounts have been given. It appears that Lord Tyrone and Miss Blank were orphans, educated in the same house 'in the principles of Deism.' When they were about fourteen years old their preceptor died, and their new guardian tried to persuade them to embrace revealed religion. The boy and girl stuck to Deism. But they made a compact, that he or she who died first should appear to the survivor, 'to declare what religion was most approved by the Supreme Being.' Miss Blank married St. Martin Beresford, and one day she appeared at breakfast with a pale face, and a black band round her wrist. On her death-bed she explained how the ghost of Lord Tyrone had appeared to her at the hour of his death, and had correctly prophesied her future: 'He struck my wrist; his hand was as cold as marble; in a moment the sinews shrank up, every nerve withered....

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