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Gratis
Charles Dickens

Three Ghost Stories

  • Safa Rmembuat kutipantahun lalu
    there is something awful in the being surrounded by familiar faces asleep—in the knowledge that those who are dearest to us and to whom we are dearest, are profoundly unconscious of us
  • Safa Rmembuat kutipantahun lalu
    heighten its effect
  • b1221452543membuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalu
    Turk always howled at particular notes and combinations. It was in vain to be a Rhadamanthus with the bells, and if an unfortunate bell rang without leave, to have it down inexorably and silence it. It was in vain to fire up chimneys, let torches down the well, charge furiously into suspected rooms and recesses. We changed servants, and it was no better. The new set ran away, and a third set came, and it was no better. At last, our comfortable housekeeping got to be so disorganised and wretched, that I one night dejectedly said to my sister: “Patty, I begin to despair of our getting people to go on with us here, and I think we must give
  • Sofía Gónzalez Ríosmembuat kutipan5 tahun yang lalu
    I wanted to have all the bells in a house ring, with nobody to ring ’em; and all the doors in a house bang, with nobody to bang ’em; and all sorts of feet treading about, with no feet there; why, then,” said the landlord, “I’d sleep in that house.
  • Sofía Gónzalez Ríosmembuat kutipan5 tahun yang lalu
    the stopped life, the broken threads of yesterday, the deserted seat, the closed book, the unfinished but abandoned occupation, all are images of Death.
  • b7631474331membuat kutipan5 tahun yang lalu
    minuteness that was a liberty.
  • ritahumembuat kutipan5 tahun yang lalu
    that time it was a beautiful morning. As I walked away among such leaves as had already fallen from the golden, brown, and russet trees; and as I looked around me on the wonders of Creation, and thought of the steady, unchanging, and harmonious laws by which they are sustained;
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