The Turn of the Screw: The Original 1898 Unabridged and Complete Edition (A Henry James Classics)

by Henry James

The fact to be in possession of was therefore that his old friend, the youngest of several daughters of a poor country parson, had, at the age of twenty, on taking service for the first time in the schoolroom, come up to London, in trepidation, to answer in person an advertisement that had already placed her in brief correspondence with the advertiser.

I had to read this 27 times

I learned something—at first, certainly—that had not been one of the teachings of my small, smothered life; learned to be amused, and even amusing, and not to think for the morrow. It was the first time, in a manner, that I had known space and air and freedom, all the music of summer and all the mystery of nature. And then there was consideration—and consideration was sweet. 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.

my real beginning of fear was one, as I may say, with the instinct of sparing my companion.

Girl ur gona go crazy

The good thing, after all, was that we should surely see no more of him.

Uh huh........

to become aware of a person on the other side of the window and looking straight in.

PLEASE

He had come for someone else.

Girl why are u not screaming

“Yes. Mr. Quint is dead.”

I have too vivid of an imagination to be reading ts

There had been, this evening, after the revelation left me, for an hour, so prostrate—there had been, for either of us, no attendance on any service but a little service of tears and vows, of prayers and promises, a climax to the series of mutual challenges and pledges that had straightway ensued on our retreating together to the schoolroom and shutting ourselves up there to have everything out.

Is this diagrammable

Nothing was more natural than that these things should be the other things that they absolutely were not.

Im having a stroke