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Then it was that the others, the outsiders, were there. Thought they were not angels, they 'passed,' as the French say, causing me, while they stayed, to tremble with the fear of their addressing to their younger victims some yet more infernal message or more vivid image than they had thought good enough for myself.
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"Oh, yes, we may sit here and look at them, and they may show off to us there to their fill; but even while they pretend to be lost in their fairytale they're steeped in visions of the dead restored. He's not reading to her," I declared; "they're talking of THEM - they're talking of horrors! I go on, I know, as if I were crazy; and it's a wonder I'm not."
— Feb 05, 2020 07:32PM
Carmen
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"I don't do it!" I sobbed in despair; "I don't save or shield them! It's far worse than I dreamed - they're lost!"
— Feb 05, 2020 07:15PM
Carmen
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"She only fixed the child."
Mrs. Grose tried to see it. "Fixed her?"
"Ah, with such awful eyes!"
She stared at mine as if they might really have resembled them. "Do you mean of dislike?"
"God help us, no. Of something much worse."
"Worse than dislike?" - this left her indeed at a loss.
"With a determination - indescribable. With a kind of fury of intention."
I made her turn pale. "Intention?"
— Feb 05, 2020 07:14PM
Mrs. Grose tried to see it. "Fixed her?"
"Ah, with such awful eyes!"
She stared at mine as if they might really have resembled them. "Do you mean of dislike?"
"God help us, no. Of something much worse."
"Worse than dislike?" - this left her indeed at a loss.
"With a determination - indescribable. With a kind of fury of intention."
I made her turn pale. "Intention?"
Carmen
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Yet I could still hear myself cry as I fairly threw myself into her arms: "They KNOW - it's too monstrous: they know, they know!"
— Feb 05, 2020 07:10PM
Carmen
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We were cut off, really, together; we were united in our danger. They had nothing but me, and I - well, I had THEM. It was in short a magnificent chance. This chance presented itself to me in an image richly material. I was a screen - I was to stand before them. The more I saw, the less they would.
— Feb 05, 2020 07:07PM
Carmen
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Oh, it was a trap - not designed, but deep - to my imagination, to my delicacy, perhaps to my vanity; to whatever, in me, was most excitable. The best way to picture it all is to say that I was off my guard. They gave me so little trouble - they were of a gentleness so extraordinary. I used to speculate - but even this with a dim disconnectedness - as to how the rough future (for all futures are rough!) would hand
— Feb 05, 2020 06:29PM
Carmen
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"What does it mean? The child's dismissed his school."
She gave me a look that I remarked at the moment; then, visibly, with a quick blankness, seemed to try to take it back. "But aren't they all - ?"
"Sent home - yes. But only for the holidays. Miles may never go back at all."
— Feb 05, 2020 06:24PM
She gave me a look that I remarked at the moment; then, visibly, with a quick blankness, seemed to try to take it back. "But aren't they all - ?"
"Sent home - yes. But only for the holidays. Miles may never go back at all."
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"That she should never trouble him - but never, never: neither appeal nor complain nor write about anything; only meet all questions herself, receive all moneys from his solicitor, take the whole thing over and let him alone."
— Feb 05, 2020 06:11PM
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He had broken the thickness of ice, the formation of many a winter; he had his reasons for a long silence.
— Feb 05, 2020 06:06PM
