"My Lord," answered the Minister, "I will take the furniture and the ghost at a valuation. I have come from a modern country,where we have everything that money can buy; and with all our spry young fellows painting the Old World red, and carrying off your best actors and prima-donnas, I reckon that if there were such a thing as a ghost in Europe, we‘d have it at home in a very short time in one of our public museums, or on the road as a show."
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