Excerpt from Haunted Houses: Tales of the Supernatural; With Some Account of Hereditary Curses and Family Legends
"Do you believe in ghosts?" asked a gentleman of Madame du Deffand.
"No," replied that witty lady, "but I am afraid of them."
There are very many people who, without the least danger of being accused of wit, do not believe in ghosts, and yet are afraid; it is, in fact, the attitude of the world toward the supernatural. Most people whose mental digestion of the marvellous, as exemplified by the pretensions of patent medicines and company promoters, is quite robust will refuse to believe in ghosts, and yet there must be few whose hair has not been stirred and whose hearts have not beat an unusual tattoo at the sound of a Something inexplicable in the watches of the night: a Something that is not rats, nor burglars, nor the wind, nor anything readily associated with things of earth.
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