Having likewise since had fresh testimonials of the veracity of that relation, and it being at first designed to fill this place, I have thought it not amiss (for the strangeness of it) to print it here a second time, exactly as I had transcribed it then."-- BOVET.
{118} Shchapoff case of "The Dancing Devil" and "The Great Amherst Mystery".
{121} Additional MSS., British Museum, 27,402, f.

132.
{122} Really 1628, unless, indeed, the long-continued appearances began in the year before Buckingham's death; old style.
{127} It may fairly be argued, granting the ghost, his advice and his knowledge of a secret known to the countess, that he was a hallucination unconsciously wired on to old Towse by the mind of the anxious countess herself! {129a} Hamilton's Memoirs.
{129b} Mrs.Thrale's Diary, 28th November, 1779.
{129c} Diary of Lady Mary Coke, 30th November, 1779.
{130a} See Phantasms, ii., 586.
{130b} The difficulty of knowing whether one is awake or asleep, just about the moment of entering or leaving sleep is notorious.

The author, on awaking in a perfectly dark room, has occasionally seen it in a dim light, and has even been aware, or seemed to be aware, of the pattern of the wall paper.

In a few moments this effect of light disappears, and all is darkness.

This is the confused mental state technically styled "Borderland," a haunt of ghosts, who are really flitting dreams.
{131} Life of Lockhart.
{132} The author has given authorities in Blackwood's Magazine March, 1895.