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A Couple of Pages from the Life of a Ghost

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after the short story "The Canterville Ghost" 
by Oscar Wilde

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It is year 1604. And I have died.

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Mister envoy...
Lady...

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Welcome to old Canterville castle.

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Hello, my dear. Call me Lucretia, 
and my husband - Hiram.

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Our kids....Virginia.
Ms. Umney.

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These are our rascals...
Dick. Keath.

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Keep in mind, Ms. Unmey, Dick is the ginger one,
Keath is the big-eared one.

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Maybe no need to remember that.
We always punish them together.

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It is year 1904. The house is sold.
It is sold together with all its contents, including me.

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You have obtained the old family nest 
of the Lords of Canterville.

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There are ten bedrooms, two guest rooms, a 
dining room, a library, a kitchen, four stables...

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and a unique ghost, the oldest in England.
A ghost? I will be taking care of that.

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Hurray! Was it killed? 

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It comes with the house? Does it work everyday?
Does it pay taxes? When will we see it?

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Mom, there is a stain.
- Paint?

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Blood, ma'am. Ordinary blood.
On this spot, three hundred years ago,

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sir Simon Canterville killed his wife.

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That, of course, is a remarkable event, 
but by no means a reason 
to keep a stain for three hundred years.

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Ma'am, nobody is keeping it. It is keeping itself.

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Nonsense! Here is a detergent 
for everything, even English stains.

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You see?

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You see...

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What happened to sir Simon?
He perished without trace.

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Nobody knows anything about his where abouts?

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To throw about such antiquities...

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That's England!
England...

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When alive, sir Simon was 
a merciless and impetuous man.

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But after his death...well, for example,
this incident with the duchess of Bolton.

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Come in, my young friend...

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In the year 1685 there was 
an incident with father Pierre.

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Lord Simon, I feel sorry for you. 

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Your fate has been difficult.
- How dare you!

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The ghost of the Canterville castle 
does not need your foolish pity.

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No, no, really, he does need it. 

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He's obviously caught some cold.
Deliver him this potion.

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I'm going mad from your materialism.

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Mister Simon...hurray!
The powder is not wet yet.

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Today, the year 1904,
you're unrivaled as always.

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Sure! I paid five hundred dollars 
for this toy on Fourth Avenue in New York.

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The ghost of Otis...
The only, the genuine, the real one.

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How are you raising your children!
Is there nothing sacred for them?!

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You're not quite right, Ms...

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"Lord Simon Canterville"

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There is some kind of mystery here...

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If a man sinned in his life 
and died a terrible death,

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and his soul left his body, 
but his body was not laid to Earth,

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he is doomed to the life of a ghost.
Sir Simon Canterville, page 66.

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Sir Simon Canterville killed his wife in a tantrum.

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Her brothers, as revenge, locked him in
in a tower that can be seen at midnight...

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Ms. Umney, are you sick?
And how! Forty years in the same place.

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A respectable house, a well-known ghost, 
and what's more, ...attentions...

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Sir Simon...thank you.
This will be the pearl of my collection.

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Sir Simon, I want to help you.
So you help me.

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So... locked in a tower that can be seen
at midnight from the library window.

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I wanted what's best, sir Simon.
I thought she bothered us.

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Sir Simon died, feeble from hunger 
in the year 1604. He died, but did not rest.

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His tempestuous spirit resides in Canterville
giving panic and terror to every living being.

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Lord, give rest to his miserable soul...

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He is laid to rest forever.
Yes, now the ghost is totally dead.

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I want to say goodbye to you. 
I have nothing more to do here.

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The tradition has been broken, 
the legend desecrated.

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 I am going to neighboring castle.

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Their ghost is older than the one from Canterville.
This is for you.

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Thus...farewell, miss Virginia.

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Although, you're the only person on Earth
with whom I wouldn't want to part. Farewell,

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Lord Simon Canterville, the ghost of Canterville.

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The remains of sir Simon were laid to earth,
and Miss Virginia spent a long time in

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a strange bewilderment, thinking about life and fate
in this and other worlds.

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The facts on the shorty earthly existence
 of bodies just revealed profoundly
the mysteries of the endless ways of the soul.

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As a physical person, Miss Virginia 
got married, became a happy mother
and grew old in love and care,

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but the fate of her trembling soul 
remained a mystery and would 
not be ever described.

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The End, Ekran 1993
Sub by Eus, august 2019 as
revision of subs by Dust Angel