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“I noticed that Victor had adapted himself to Anna’s quieter personality, though quiet, perhaps, is hardly the right definition for her gift of stillness. This stillness—for there is no other word for it—came from some depth within her and put a spell upon the whole house.”

“There was something monstrous in the sight, something distasteful; yet it was pitiful too that the months had brought this agony upon the tree, for agony it was, there could be no other word for it. The tree was tortured by fruit, groaning under the weight of it, and the frightful part about it was that not one of the fruit was eatable.”

“It was the frozen blue of her eyes that he could not bear.”

“The creature was gibbering in its corner. The hammering and the voices and the barking dog grew fainter, and, “Oh God,” he thought, “what a bloody silly way to die…”