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“I don’t want any of you to go dying on me, because I just can’t begin to tell you how much trouble it is to arrange a funeral!” Luker didn’t reply. “Big Barbara?” said India, when her grandmother was knocking the last ice cube into her mouth. “What, child?” “Do they always do that at funerals around here?” “Do what?” asked Big Barbara uneasily, not turning around. “Stick knives in dead people.” “I was hoping you hadn’t been paying attention at that time,” said Big Barbara. “But I assure you, child, it is not a common occurrence. In fact, I have never seen it done before. And I am as sorry as
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He pointed ahead, and mouthed the word Beldame. India leaned back against the windshield, not caring if she blocked his vision, and stared ahead. They crossed a small damp depression of wet sand and clay, shell-littered, that looked rather like a dried riverbed, and proceeded onto a long spit of land, no more than fifty yards wide. On the left-hand side there was the Gulf, with gulls and flying fish, and porpoises in the distance; but on the right was a narrow lagoon of green motionless water and beyond it the much wider peninsula that was traversed by the Dixie Graves Parkway. On this narrow
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“What’s in that house, child, knows more than you know. What’s in that house don’t come out of your mind. It don’t have to worry ’bout rules and behaving like a spirit ought to behave. It does what it does to fool you, it wants to trick you into believing what’s not right. It’s got no truth to it. What it did last week it’s not gone be doing today. You see something in there, it wasn’t there yesterday, it’s not gone be there tomorrow. You stand at one of them doors thinking something’s behind it—nothing’s behind it. It’s waiting for you upstairs, it’s waiting for you downstairs. It’s standing
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