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The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

by Charles Dickens

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  1. 01CHAPTER I The Gift Bestowed — part 1~25 min
  2. 02CHAPTER I The Gift Bestowed — part 2~25 min
  3. 03CHAPTER I The Gift Bestowed — part 3~7 min
  4. 04CHAPTER II The Gift Diffused — part 1~25 min
  5. 05CHAPTER II The Gift Diffused — part 2~25 min
  6. 06CHAPTER II The Gift Diffused — part 3~25 min
  7. 07CHAPTER II The Gift Diffused — part 4~20 min
  8. 08CHAPTER III The Gift Reversed — part 1~25 min
  9. 09CHAPTER III The Gift Reversed — part 2~25 min
  10. 10CHAPTER III The Gift Reversed — part 3~13 min

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Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken, in most instances, such a weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority is proved to be fallible. Everybody may sometimes be right; “but _that’s_ no rule,” as the ghost of Giles Scroggins says in the ballad.

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