Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde
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'I suppose because we have no ruins and no curiosities,' said Virginia satirically. 'No ruins! no curiosities!' answered the Ghost; 'you have your navy and your manners.' 'Good evening; I will go and ask papa to get the twins an extra week's holiday.' 'Please don't go, Miss Virginia,' he cried; 'I am so lonely and so unhappy, and I really don't know what to do. I want to go to sleep and I cannot.' 'That's quite absurd! You have merely to go to bed and blow out the candle. It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping. Why, even babies know how to do that, and they are not very clever.' 'I have not slept for three hundred years,' he said sadly, and Virginia's beautiful blue eyes opened in wonder; 'for three hundred years I have not slept, and I am so tired.' Virginia grew quite grave, and her little lips trembled like rose- leaves. She came towards him, and kneeling down at his side, looked up into his old withered face. 'Poor, poor Ghost,' she murmured; 'have you no place where you can sleep?' |
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