Though I couldn't make out what she was talking of I was terribly frightened; the absence of a clue gave such a range to one's imagination.

("Sir Edmund Orme")

Henry James

Mots clés fear unknown fright

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I was too much taken up with another interest to care; I felt beneath my feet the threshold of the strange door, in my life, which had suddenly been thrown open and out of which came an air of a keenness I had never breathed and of a taste stronger than wine. I had heard all my days of apparitions, but it was a different thing to have seen one and to know that I should in all likelihood see it familiarly, as I might say, again. I was on the lookout for it as a pilot for the flash of a revolving light and ready to generalise on the sinister subject, to answer for it to all and sundry that ghosts were much less alarming and much more amusing than was commonly supposed. There's no doubt that I was much uplifted. I couldn't get over the distinction conferred on me, the exception - in the way of mystic enlargement of vision - made in my favour.

("Sir Edmund Orme")

Henry James

Mots clés ghosts supernatural ghost

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Then again I shifted my eyes-I faced what I had to face.

Henry James

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