LITTLE NOVELS
by Wilkie Collins
MRS. ZANT AND THE GHOST.
I.
THE course of this narrative describes the return of a
disembodied spirit to earth, and leads the reader on new and
strange ground.
Not in the obscurity of midnight, but in the searching light of
day, did the supernatural influence assert itself. Neither
revealed by a vision, nor announced by a voice, it reached mortal
knowledge through the sense which is least easily self-deceived:
the sense that feels.
The record of this event will of necessity produce conflicting
impressions. It will raise, in some minds, the doubt which reason
asserts; it will invigorate, in other minds, the hope which faith
justifies; and it will leave the terrible question of the
destinies of man, where centuries of vain investigation have left
it--in the dark.
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