![]() ![]() When Virginia finds Sir Simon sulking, she agrees to help him find his way to everlasting rest-and peace-by undergoing a frightening journey with him, to cry and pray for forgiveness of his sins. ![]() When the Duke of Cheshire, one of Virginia Otis’ suitors, comes to visit, Sir Simon decides he will scare him, but is too frightened of the twins to go through with it. Over time, they continue to torment him, until he is afraid to make too much noise at night. What follows is a sort of war between the twins and Sir Simon’s ghost. ![]() The two youngest of the Otis family, twins referred to as Stars and Stripes, play tricks to humiliate Sir Simon, and Lucretia Otis, Hiram’s wife, offers the ghost a tincture for indigestion when she hears him cry out. Sir Simon tries to frighten the Otis family, but instead of being frightened, Hiram offers the ghost a lubrication solution to keep his chains from rattling, so that he and his family can sleep. Hiram’s oldest son, Washington, tries to remove the stain with detergent, but it keeps coming back. When they arrive, they find a blood stain that reappears every morning in the library, where Sir Simon de Canterville murdered his wife in the sixteenth century. The story begins with Hiram Otis and Lord Canterville discussing the ghost that haunts Canterville Chase, where the Otis family will be living. ![]()
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