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Romantic castles and palaces (1901)

Singleton, Esther, d 1930, [from old catalog] ed. and tr · New York, Dodd, Mead & co. · leaf 414

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andspirits moving silently down winding stairs and dark pas-sages are wont to make night fearsome. This feeling ofeeriness is not confined to the naturally nervous, for SirWalter Scott, who spent a night at Glamis in 1794,writes : After a very hospitable reception, ... I wasconducted to my… … GLAMIS CASTLE 315 Additional interest attaches to this castle from the factthat its venerable walls enshroud a mysterious somethingswhich has for centuries baffled the curiosity and investiga-tions of all unauthorized persons; this secret is knownonly to three people—the Earl of the time being, his…

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