Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

Little Womena little door guarded by two stout fellows, knocked theirheads together till they cracked like a couple of nuts, then,by a trifling exertion of his prodigious strength, hesmashed in the door, went up a pair of stone steps coveredwith dust a foot thick, toads as big as your fist, and spidersthat would frighten you into hysterics, MIss March. At thetop of these steps he came plump upon a sight that tookhis breath away and chilled his blood..’‘A tall figure, all in white with a veil over its face and alamp in its wasted hand,’ went on Meg. ‘It beckoned,gliding noiselessly before him down a corridor as dark andcold as any tomb. Shadowy effigies in armor stood oneither side, a dead silence reigned, the lamp burned blue,and the ghostly figure ever and anon turned its face towardhim, showing the glitter of awful eyes through its whiteveil. They reached a curtained door, behind whichsounded lovely music. He sprang forward to enter, but thespecter plucked him back, and waved threateningly beforehim a..’‘Snuffbox,’ said Jo, in a sepulchral tone, whichconvulsed the audience. ‘‘Thankee, ‘ said the knightpolitely, as he took a pinch and sneezed seven times soviolently that his head fell off. ‘Ha! Ha!’ laughed the ghost,and having peeped through the keyhole at the princesses229 of 861