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一位年轻女子在名为布莱（Bly）的偏远乡间别墅里，担任两位美丽孤儿的家庭教师。不久，她开始在园子里看到一位奇怪的男子和一位脸色苍白的女子。他们是两位前任仆人的鬼魂吗？孩子们也看到他们吗？
边听边读 即将推出朗读时逐句高亮。
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We had been telling ghost stories round the fire on Christmas Eve, in an old country house, which is exactly where such stories belong. The last one had held us well enough. It was about a little boy who woke in the night and saw something dreadful, and whose mother, waking to comfort him, saw the same thing. When it was over, someone remarked that it was the only case he knew of in which such a visit had come to a child.
Douglas said nothing at first. Later in the evening, though, he stood up with his back to the fire and his hands in his pockets.
"I agree that it adds a particular touch when the ghost appears to a child," he said. "But it is not the only case of its charming kind that I know. If one child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to two children?"