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L I T T L E C L A S S I C S EDITED BY ROSSITER JOHNSON

L I T T L E C L A S S I C S

STORIES OF INTELLECT

BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1914  {4} COPYRIGHT, 1874, BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The Riverside Press Cambridge

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   THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN. BY E. BULWER LYTTON.

 FRIEND of mine, who is a man of letters and a philosopher, said to me one day, as if between jest and earnest, “Fancy! since we last met I have discovered a haunted house in the midst of London.”

“Really haunted? and by what,—ghosts?”

“Well, I can’t answer these questions; all I know is this: six weeks ago I and my wife were in search of a furnished apartment. Passing a quiet street, we saw on the window of one of the houses a bill, ‘Apartments 

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