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Out the Vasty Deep, by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
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Title: From Out the Vasty Deep
Author: Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
Release Date: March 15, 2004 [EBook #11581]
Language: English
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FROM OUT THE VASTY DEEP
BY
MRS. BELLOC LOWNDES
1921
TO
A.H. FASS
The owner of the real "Wyndfell Hall"
in memory of many happy hours spent there by his friend the writer
Glendower:
"I can call spirits from the vasty deep."
Hotspur:
"Why, so can I; or so can any man: But will they come, when you do call for them?"
Henry IV.
CHAPTER I
"I always thought that you, Pegler, were such a very sensible woman."
The words were said in a good-natured, though slightly vexed tone; and a curious kind of smile flitted over the rather grim face of the person to whom they were addressed.
"I've never troubled you before in this exact way, have I, ma'am?"
"No, Pegler. That you certainly have not."
Miss Farrow looked up from the very comforta