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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

CHAPTER II
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She displayed the deepest regret; her countenance changed, she fell back, and died.
Next day the melancholy of Mademoiselle C.attracted the attention of her uncle.

She told him her dream; he pressed her to his heart, and admitted that her mother was dead.
Some months later Mademoiselle C., when her uncle was absent, arranged his papers, which he did not like any one to touch.

Among these was a letter containing the story of her mother's death, with all the details of her own dream, which D.had kept concealed lest they should impress her too painfully.
Boismont is staggered by this circumstance, and inclined to account for it by "still unknown relations in the moral and physical world".
"Mental telegraphy," of course, would explain all, and even chance coincidence is perfectly conceivable.
The most commonly known of dreams prior to, or simultaneous with an historical occurrence represented in the vision, is Mr.Williams's dream of the murder of Mr.Perceval in the lobby of the House of Commons, May 11, 1812.

Mr.Williams, of Scorrier House, near Redruth, in Cornwall, lived till 1841.

He was interested in mines, and a man of substance.


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