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“For general uncanny ugliness and horror and pain.”
yes, just what we want at Christmas.
Young as she was,
how old are the kids?
Was there a “secret” at Bly—a mystery of Udolpho or an insane, an unmentionable relative kept in unsuspected confinement?
If I had met a murderer in such a place and at such an hour, we still at least would have spoken.
really??
The presence on the lawn—I felt sick as I made it out—was poor little Miles himself.
omg just USE YOUR WORDS. "Miles, what are you doing outside? Flora, who are you talking to? "
But she was a magnificent monument to the blessing of a want of imagination,
The four, depend upon it, perpetually meet.
why are the children meeting with ghosts who look malevolently at them??
“For the love of all the evil that, in those dreadful days, the pair put into them. And to ply them with that evil still, to keep up the work of demons, is what brings the others back.”
Ok, yup, sure thing
for the way in which a man pays his highest tribute to a woman is apt to be but by the more festal celebration of one of the sacred laws of his comfort;
the specter of the most horrible of women.
the most horrible? really? dramatic much?
it’s now all out.”
no it's not! nothing is "out!"
“What do you mean by all the rest?” “Oh, you know, you know!”
🤪
was still in my pocket.
"Bilbo, the ring is still in your pocket"
“Oh, HE’S with Quint. They’re in the schoolroom.”
is she just making stuff up to Mrs. Grose? going with the vibes? what?
“You leave him—?” “So long with Quint? Yes—I don’t mind that now.”
laid it on the great hall table.
yeah that letter is not getting sent
at such times she’s not a child: she’s an old, old woman.”
???
“What a dreadful turn, to be sure, miss! Where on earth do you see anything?”
truth, or in denial?
“I have to see Luke.”
Luke is (the footman?) who was meant to take the letter.
“I know everything.” He gave me at this the longest and strangest look. “Everything?”
obviously you don't know everything, or you wouldn't be asking "is that what you did at school?" 🙄🙄
“No—only a few. Those I liked.”
