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    Reading: The Canterville Ghost: by Oscar Wilde

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    Virginia disappears after dinner, worrying her family. When midnight strikes, she reappears through a secret door holding a small box. She tells them she had been with the ghost, who was dead. The ghost had been sorry for his past actions and gave Virginia the box of jewels before dying. Virginia leads the family to a secret room where they find the skeleton of Sir Simon, who had been starved to death. While Virginia prays beside the skeleton, one of the twins notices that the old almond tree outside has blossomed, even though it was not the right season.

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    Reading: The Canterville Ghost: by Oscar Wilde

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    Virginia disappears after dinner, worrying her family. When midnight strikes, she reappears through a secret door holding a small box. She tells them she had been with the ghost, who was dead. The ghost had been sorry for his past actions and gave Virginia the box of jewels before dying. Virginia leads the family to a secret room where they find the skeleton of Sir Simon, who had been starved to death. While Virginia prays beside the skeleton, one of the twins notices that the old almond tree outside has blossomed, even though it was not the right season.

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    Virginia disappears after dinner, worrying her family. When midnight strikes, she reappears through a secret door holding a small box. She tells them she had been with the ghost, who was dead. The ghost had been sorry for his past actions and gave Virginia the box of jewels before dying. Virginia leads the family to a secret room where they find the skeleton of Sir Simon, who had been starved to death. While Virginia prays beside the skeleton, one of the twins notices that the old almond tree outside has blossomed, even though it was not the right season.

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    Reading: The Canterville Ghost: by Oscar Wilde

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    Virginia disappears after dinner, worrying her family. When midnight strikes, she reappears through a secret door holding a small box. She tells them she had been with the ghost, who was dead. The ghost had been sorry for his past actions and gave Virginia the box of jewels before dying. Virginia leads the family to a secret room where they find the skeleton of Sir Simon, who had been starved to death. While Virginia prays beside the skeleton, one of the twins notices that the old almond tree outside has blossomed, even though it was not the right season.

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    MAYOR DE SAN ANDRES UNIVERSITY

    LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT


    ENGLISH – LEVEL 2.1
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    Reading: The Canterville Ghost1


    By Oscar Wilde
    Chapter 6

    About ten minutes later, the bell rang for dinner, and, as Virginia did not come
    down, Mrs. Otis sent up one of the servants. After a little time, he returned and said
    that he could not find Miss Virginia anywhere. So, the whole family started looking
    for her.

    The hours passed, but they could find no trace of Virginia. So, after dinner, Mr.
    Otis ordered them all to bed, saying that nothing more could be done that night, and
    that he would contact Scotland Yard in the morning. Just when everybody was about

    1 Source: https://www.ego4u.com/en/read-on/literature/canterville-ghost

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    Language Instructor: Beatriz Erazo 1
    MAYOR DE SAN ANDRES UNIVERSITY
    LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT
    ENGLISH – LEVEL 2.1
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    to leave the dining-room, the clock struck midnight, and when the last stroke
    sounded, a secret door opened in the wall and in that door stood Virginia with a
    little box in her hand. Everybody ran up to her.

    “Good heavens! child, where have you been?” said Mr. Otis, rather angrily, as
    he thought she had been playing a trick on them.

    “Papa,” said Virginia quietly, “I have been with the ghost. He is dead, and you
    must come and see him. He had been very nasty, but he was really sorry for all that
    he had done, and he gave me this box of beautiful jewels before he died.”

    Then she led the others down a narrow secret corridor to a little low room.
    There the family found the skeleton of Sir Simon, who had been starved to death by
    his wife's brothers. Virginia knelt down beside the skeleton, and, folding her little
    hands together, began to pray silently.

    Meanwhile, one of the twins was looking out of the window in the little room
    and suddenly said, “Look! The old almond-tree has blossoms.”

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    Language Instructor: Beatriz Erazo 2

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