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This home of mine in the melancholy isles of furthest Thule is a very old mansion, built (or rather added to) by several generations of eccentric owners, until it became the queer mass of stone and mortar which you see. N ever theless, there is a certain picturesque look about the Ha' hoose which imparts character to the dead walls, and seems in keeping with the rocks and grey moor that sur. Round it. One of my forbears must have had a keen love of the beautiful, combined with an energy unusual to the islanders, for we are indebted to refined taste and deter mined warfare against the elements for the small plantation of trees which covers the slope of rugged hill lying between our house and the sea. The Shetland peasantry, quite unaccustomed to the aspect of wood, except in its form of Noroway deal, had many superstitious ideas regarding our garden and shrubbery; and it may have been from hearing the talk of these folks that I imbibed the notion of ghostly shapes who glided among the somewhat weather wom trunks of our plantation. But that circumstance did not prevent the trees from being to me a source of great delight; and the fact that our house was haunted was an ancient, undisputed tradition, in which my soul rejoiced. The natural allusion to supernatural things, with a constant reference to Spiritual agencies, had so familiarised my mind with an unseen world, and its invisible occupants, that I had no fears on the subject, and would have accosted a trow or a ghost with the freedom of old acquaintance.
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This home of mine in the melancholy isles of furthest Thule is a very old mansion, built (or rather added to) by several generations of eccentric owners, until it became the queer mass of stone and mortar which you see. N ever theless, there is a certain picturesque look about the Ha' hoose which imparts character to the dead walls, and seems in keeping with the rocks and grey moor that sur. Round it. One of my forbears must have had a keen love of the beautiful, combined with an energy unusual to the islanders, for we are indebted to refined taste and deter mined warfare against the elements for the small plantation of trees which covers the slope of rugged hill lying between our house and the sea. The Shetland peasantry, quite unaccustomed to the aspect of wood, except in its form of Noroway deal, had many superstitious ideas regarding our garden and shrubbery; and it may have been from hearing the talk of these folks that I imbibed the notion of ghostly shapes who glided among the somewhat weather wom trunks of our plantation. But that circumstance did not prevent the trees from being to me a source of great delight; and the fact that our house was haunted was an ancient, undisputed tradition, in which my soul rejoiced. The natural allusion to supernatural things, with a constant reference to Spiritual agencies, had so familiarised my mind with an unseen world, and its invisible occupants, that I had no fears on the subject, and would have accosted a trow or a ghost with the freedom of old acquaintance.
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- Publication date2019
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- ISBN 13 9781334125898
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- Number of pages196
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