She was placed in the garden; greatly as we admired both pieces of
workmanship, we considered them merely as what they seemed to be; they
went by the names of Mrs. L.'s Man and Woman; and even when you
departed for the south they were still known only by that vague and
most unworthy designation. Some startling circumstances after awhile
excited a more particular attention to them. Several of the family
declared they had been frightened by them; and K. one evening, came in
saying that Aunt L.'s woman had _given her_ a jump. Even this did not
awaken any suspicion of their supernatural powers as it ought to have
done, till on a winter's night, one of the maids hearing a knock at
the back door opened it; and started back when she saw that it was the
woman with a letter in her hand! This is as certain as that Nosso
Senhor dos Passes knocked at the door of S. Roque's convent in Lisbon
and was not taken in,—to the infinite regret of the monks when they
learnt that he had gone afterwards to the Graça Convent and been
admitted there. It is as certain that I have seen men, women and
children of all ranks kissing the foot of the said Image in the
Church, and half Lisbon following his procession in the streets. It is
as certain as all the miracles in the Fasti, the Metamorphoses, and
the Acta Sanctorum.
Many remarkable things were now called to mind both of the man and
woman;—how on one occasion they had made Miss C.'s maid miscarry
of—half a message; and how at another time when Isaac was bringing a
basket from Mr. C.'s, he was frightened into his wits by them. But on
Sunday evening last the most extraordinary display of wonderful power
occurred, for in the evening the woman instead of being in her place
among the pease, appeared standing erect on the top of Mr. Fisher's
haymow in the forge field, and there on the following morning she was
seen by all Keswick, who are witnesses of the fact.
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