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of singular beauty and splendid form, adopted the previous September, is in her fourth month with my wife, Gerda, and me. She is joyful, affectionate, comical, intelligent, remarkably well behaved. She is also more self-possessed and
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“As early as the 1830s Charles Babbage had managed to construct a “Difference Engine” which could perform simple sums, but he soon became preoccupied with the far more complicated “Analytical Engine” which could add, subtract, multiply and divide as well as solve both algebraic and numerical equations; it had also been able to print out the results of its calculations onto stereotype plates. This was the engine which Gissing had come to see.”
― The Trial of Elizabeth Cree: A Novel of the Limehouse Murders
― The Trial of Elizabeth Cree: A Novel of the Limehouse Murders
“He was about to drive over to see Ralph at his home when he stopped reaching for the key in the ignition switch as a cautionary thought came to him like someone waving a huge red flag in front of his eyes.”
― A House of Ghosts: A Riveting Haunted House Mystery Boxset
― A House of Ghosts: A Riveting Haunted House Mystery Boxset
“through windows”
― A House of Ghosts: A Riveting Haunted House Mystery Boxset
― A House of Ghosts: A Riveting Haunted House Mystery Boxset
“David saw the name Miller on her nameplate and recognized her rank from the stripes on her sleeve from some research he had done for this novella he had published back in Hartford as that of a sergeant.”
― A House of Ghosts: A Riveting Haunted House Mystery Boxset
― A House of Ghosts: A Riveting Haunted House Mystery Boxset
“And for all David knew just then, Maggie could very well have some sort of ax to grind herself with the police or Simpson and Allen themselves, though he had not come away from his meeting with her having that impression.”
― A House of Ghosts: A Riveting Haunted House Mystery Boxset
― A House of Ghosts: A Riveting Haunted House Mystery Boxset
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