Tales Of A Traveller, By Washington Irving

















































































































 -  I tried to look cool and calm and to restrain my
pique; but the coolness and calmness of a man - Page 54
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I Tried To Look Cool And Calm And To Restrain My Pique; But The Coolness And Calmness Of A Man In A Passion Are Confounded Treacherous.

Gentlemen, said I, with a slight cocking of the chin, and a bad attempt at a smile, this is all very pleasant - ha!

Ha! - very pleasant - but I'd have you know I am as little superstitious as any of you - ha! ha! - and as to anything like timidity - you may smile, gentlemen - but I trust there is no one here means to insinuate that. - As to a room's being haunted, I repeat, gentlemen - (growing a little warm at seeing a cursed grin breaking out round me) - as to a room's being haunted, I have as little faith in such silly stories as any one. But, since you put the matter home to me, I will say that I have met with something in my room strange and inexplicable to me - (a shout of laughter). Gentlemen, I am serious - I know well what I am saying - I am calm, gentlemen, (striking my flat upon the table) - by heaven I am calm. I am neither trifling, nor do I wish to be trifled with - (the laughter of the company suppressed with ludicrous attempts at gravity). There is a picture in the room in which I was put last night, that has had an effect upon me the most singular and incomprehensible.

"A picture!" said the old gentleman with the haunted head. "A picture!" cried the narrator with the waggish nose.

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