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Jane. We'll draw round / The fire, and grandmamma perhaps will tell us / One of her stories. / Harry... Ay, dear grand maamma! / A pretty story! something dismal now! / A bloody murder. / Jane... Or about a ghost. / -- Southey: The Grandmother's Fate.
In the evening Miss Gryll said to the doctor, 'We have passed Christmas without a ghost story. This is not as it should be. One evening at least of Christmas ought to be devoted to _merveilleuses histoires racontées autour du foyer_; which Chateaubriand enumerates among the peculiar enjoyments of those _qui n'ont pas quitté leur pays natal._ You must have plenty of ghosts in Greek and Latin, doctor.'