The ghost stood up with an annoying howl and passed through them like a haze. Unexpected things happen suit of armour fallen, twins start shooting peas. Silent Night, the family went to bed terrible smash in the hallway. Virginia was annoyed to see the bloodstain, she nearly cried the morning when the stain was green. The only strange thing blood-stain found every day with change colour. The ghost disappears from the rest of the week. Chapter 3ĭetermined to fright these “ wretched modern Americans,” Sir Simon stays up all night intrigue his revenge. Returning to his chamber, Sir Simon recalls his long and prosperous future as a ghost, furious that never approximate in three hundred years of haunting maids and guests has he been so disrespected. Otis asks the ghost to oil its chains as it’s impossible for him to sleep with such a noise going on outside the bedrooms.Įxtremely humiliated, Sir Simon retreats down the hallway until he encounters the twins, who throw pillows at his head. Rather than being scared by Sir Simon’s (ghost’s) burning red eyes, matted hair, and rusty manacles, Mr. Venturing into the lobby, he encounters the ghost of Sir Simon. Otis is waked in the half of the night by a clanging voice. Intrigued, the family of Otis decides that the house is, in fact, ghostly.Ī few nights later, Mr. For the next few days, they habitually clean the stain only to see it return back the next day morning. The next day, the Otises shocked, find that the stain has strangely returned. As the stain is removed, lightning sparks and a peal of thunder rocks the full house. She gives warning Mrs Otis that Sir Simon’s guilty ghost still haunts Canterville Chase.ĭismissing the housekeeper’s story as nonsense, bothering it is all about the rumour, Washington speedily pulls out an ampoule of Pinkerton’s Champion Stain Remover, scouring it onto the spot until the stain is cleaned. Their housekeeper discloses that it is a stain of blood from the murder of The Lady Eleanore de Canterville, who was get victimised in 1575 by her husband, Sir Simon de Canterville, and that it cannot vanish. “Pinkerton’s Champion Stain Remover and Paragon Detergent” Oscar Wilde Otis finds a dull red stain on the floor and desires that it be cleaned. Otis moves into the Chase with the rest of his family: his better half-life partner, Lucretia his eldest son, Washington his beloved fifteen-year-old daughter, Virginia and his two young twin sons.

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