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A STRANGE STORY.
TO WHICH IS ADDED,
THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS.
BY
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON (LORD LYTTON.)
"To doubt and to be astonished is to recognize our ignorance. Hence it is that the lover of wisdom is in a certain sort a lover of mythi [Greek: phylomythos pôs], for the subject of mythi is the astonishing and marvellous."—SIR W. HAMILTON (after Aristotle), Lectures on Metaphysics, vol. i. p. 78.