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Everyone else in my family is dead.
“What are you reading, my dear? A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
The people of the village have always hated
Its giving Adams family.
If it was a very good day I would later make an offering of jewelry out of gratitude.
Witchy queen! Offering to what?...
but I wished they were dead. I would have liked to come into the grocery some morning and see them all, even the Elberts and the children, lying there crying with the pain and dying.
with perhaps a kick for Mrs. Donell while she lay there. I was never sorry when I had thoughts like this; I only wished they would come true.
oh wow okay
Just you say the word, Merricat.”
First time Merricat is used...
Their tongues will burn, I thought, as though they had eaten fire. Their throats will burn when the words come out, and in their bellies they will feel a torment hotter than a thousand fires.
Wow.
“Merricat,” she said, smiling at me, “look how far I came today.”
Where’s my cat?” “He went off chasing butterflies because you were late.
She has a creature like me! <3
and Jonas, my cat, came out of the flowers and followed me.
disliked eating anything while people were looking at me, so I had my tea afterwards,
That day, which was the last time Helen Clarke ever came for tea,
“I’ll send them away,” I said. “She knows better than this.” “No,” Constance said. “I really think it will be all right. You watch me.”
???!!
My niece, after all, was acquitted of murder.
ohhh okay.
“Then why did she—” “Yes,”
???
“She never even met him,”
the boy Thomas—did you know I once had a nephew, that my brother had a son?
They had a brother?
The other dishes used at dinner were still on the table, but my niece took the sugar bowl to the kitchen, emptied it, and scrubbed it thoroughly with boiling water. It was a curious act.”
This is highly incriminating...
“She told the police those people deserved to die.”
“How was I?” “Superb, Uncle Julian.” Constance stood up and went over to him and touched his old head lightly. “You didn’t need your notes at all.” “It really happened?” he asked her. “It certainly did.
He keeps asking that? How peculiar.
so long as they were where I had put them nothing could get in to harm us.
I decided that I would choose three powerful words, words of strong protection, and so long as these great words were never spoken aloud no change would come. I wrote the first word—melody—in
Gloucester.
Pegasus.
would not forget my magic words; they were MELODY GLOUCESTER PEGASUS,
The weather was uneasy on Sunday morning and I thought that perhaps Jonas would succeed after all in running up a storm;
Haha love literal phrases
“You should have let me take him to the moon,” I said.
for a minute the grass would all bend together under the breeze and then there would be a hurrying pattern across it where Jonas was running.
Love this imagery.
on Sunday morning I lay there with Jonas, listening to his stories. All cat stories start with the statement: “My mother, who was the first cat, told me this,” and I lay with my head close to Jonas and listened.
It was really too late, although I did not know it then; he was already on his way to the house.
and he was sitting at the table in my chair.
And a woman of such notoriety as your cousin Constance would present a romantic figure to a young man. Constance?”
Thats her cousin...?!
it was as though she had been expecting all her life that Cousin Charles would come, as though she had planned exactly what to do and say, almost as though in the house of her life there had always been a room kept for Cousin Charles.
Maybe they have been writing to each other? But they dont take mail?
“Really?” said Uncle Julian. “I congratulate you. I was referring to the effect a weighty meal like pancakes is apt to have on a delicate stomach. I suppose your reference was to arsenic.”
Uncle Julian is such a funny character.
“It’s in Father’s safe.”
Why would you tell him that!?
“You stay away from Jonas,” I said. “As a matter of fact,” he said, “come about a month from now, I wonder who will still be here? You,” he said, “or me?”
“Ought to wear a baby bib,” Charles said, laughing.
Evil man.
went off to look for Jonas.
if hes dead...
that Thursday was going to be the last day.
“I haven’t quite decided what I’m going to do with you,” he said. “But whatever I do, you’ll remember it.”
“I am going to put death in all their food and watch them die.” Constance stirred, and the leaves rustled. “The way you did before?” she asked. It had never been spoken of between us, not once in six years. “Yes,” I said after a minute, “the way I did before.”
I KNEW SHE DID IT.
It seemed that all the wealth and hidden treasure of our house had been found out and torn and soiled;
