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HAUNTED HOUSE
Princess And The Ghost The Princess lived in a magnificent castle High on to of a hill The King was situated in the palace some distance away But he often visited and stayed at the castle The Princess was very beautiful She was twenty years old and adored by the towns people Many nobleman hoped to win her hand in marriage The Princess often wondered alone in the castle And sometimes she walked through the dungeons He felt at home with the dead A sense of melancholy was always close at hand She was reluctant to play the role of a princess She wanted to choose her own husband But that was not the way of things While walking through the dungeons She came into a contact with a ghost His name was Sir Peter He had been a gallant knight And was brave in battle He had been locked in the dungeon by a previous king The Princess was enchanted by her ghost She was not frightened at all She found his presence comforting She could empathize with his troubled spirit The previous king had fallen in love with Sir Peter's sister But she did not want to marry the king She was an Anglo-Saxon and the king was a Norman She already had a husband in mine Who was the blacksmith in the local village The previous king tried to take her by force But the villages and townspeople resisted Sir Peter headed the resistance Eventually he was captured and taken to the castle And his sister took her life rather than be forced to marry the king After several years in the dungeons the king had sir Peter beheaded The Princess was shocked by the story She knew how his sister must have felt Soon she would be twenty one years old And her father was determined to announce her future husband And her birthday approached she spent more time in the dungeon Talking to the ghost of Sir Peter The inhabitants of the castle thought his very odd But said nothing On the morning of her birthday Her chambermaid entered her bedroom And found the Princess lying lifeless on her bed She had taken her own life A note was found next to her body "I have chosen my own destiny I have chosen to join the ghost of Sir Peter in harmonious unrest Will we ever find peace or will we haunt the castle forever? I depart this world in a state of peace and contentment Please don't weep for me - I have found my true destiny" Time passed and the kingdom became a democracy And the castle became a tourist attraction Some people say they can still hear two ghosts singing and laughing together Apparently content in their state of harmonious unrest
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