“Come, children, pull yourselves together! I dare say no one has ever seen the ghost.” “Yes, yes, we saw him – we saw him just now!” cried the girls. “He had his death’s head and his dress-coat, just as when he appeared to Joseph Buquet!” “And Gabriel saw him too!” said Jammes. “Only yesterday! Yesterday afternoon – in broad day-light – –.”

“Come, children, pull yourselves together! I dare say no one has ever seen the ghost.” “Yes, yes, we saw him – we saw him just now!” cried the girls. “He had his death’s head and his dress-coat, just as when he appeared to Joseph Buquet!” “And Gabriel saw him too!” said Jammes. “Only yesterday! Yesterday afternoon – in broad day-light – –.”

— Gaston Leroux