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Read the excerpt from "The Phantom Rickshaw."
(10) In my room I sat down and tried calmly to reason out the matter. Here was I, Theobald Jack Pansay, a well-educated Bengal Civilian in the year
of grace 1885, presumably sane, certainly healthy, driven in terror from my sweetheart's side by the apparition of a woman who had been dead and
buried eight months ago. These were facts that I could not blink. Nothing was further from my thought than any memory of Mrs. Wessington when
Kitty and I left Hamilton's shop. Nothing was more utterly commonplace than the stretch of wall opposite Peliti's. It was broad daylight. The road was
full of people; and yet here, look you, in defiance of every law of probability, in direct outrage of Nature's ordinance, there had appeared to me a face
from the grave.
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The details underlined in the excerpt support the idea that jack is

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in a state of disbelief and confusion over the appearance of a woman who had been dead and buried eight months ago, which goes against all laws of probability and Nature's ordinance.
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