Quote#Self
"There was a man sitting or kneeling on Sampson's window-sill, and…
Quote byM. R. James · 1862–1936
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "A School Story", from More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911); The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James (London: Edward Arnold, 1947) p. 188..
English (original)
"There was a man sitting or kneeling on Sampson's window-sill, and looking in, and I thought he was beckoning…He looked as if he was wet all over: and," he said, looking round and whispering as if he hardly liked to hear himself, "I'm not at all sure that he was alive."
— M. R. James
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