News from the invisible world; a collection of remarkable narratives on the certainty of supernatural visitations from the dead to the living / Impartially compiled from the works of Baxter, Wesley, Simpson, etc.

Ottway, T.

Date:: 1844

Credit: News from the invisible world; a collection of remarkable narratives on the certainty of supernatural visitations from the dead to the living / Impartially compiled from the works of Baxter, Wesley, Simpson, etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$in the repetition, but I have never told it otlu-r\vi>e than as I have now repeated. The late Chevalier de Gotot told me that Desfontaines also appeared to M. de Menil-Jean. But I have not the pleasure of his ac- quaintance ; he lives twenty leagues hence, towards Argentan; and I can add nothing further on the subject. Sir John Sherbroke and General Wynyard were, a.s young men, officers in the same regiment, which was employed on foreign service. They were con- nected by similarity of tastes and studies, and s])ent together, in literary occupation, much of the vacant time, which was squandered by their brother officers in those excesses of the table, which some forty years ago were considered among the necessary accomplish- ments of the military character. They were one af- ternoon sitting in Wynyard’s apartment. It was per- fectly light, the hour was about four o’clock ; they bad dined, but neither of them had drank wine, and they had retired from the mess to continue together the occupations of the morning. I ought to have said, that the apartment in which fliey were had two doors in it, the one opening into a pa.ssage, and the other leading into Wynyard’s bed-room. Tliere were no other means of entering the sitting room but from the passage, and no other egress from the bed-room but through the sitting-room ; so that any person passing into the bed-room must have remained there, unless he returned by the way he entered. This point is of consequence to the story. As these two young officers were pursuing their studies, Sherbroke, whose eye happened accidentally to glance from the volume be- fore him towards the door that opened to the passage, observed a tall youth, of about twenty years of age, whose appearance was that of extreme emaciation, standing beside it. Struck with the presence of a perfect stranger, he immediately turned to his friend,$