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Артур Мейчен. The Great God Pan / Великий бог Пан
The Great God Pan
I. The Experiment
II. Mr. Clarke's Memoirs
III. The City of Resurrections
IV. The Discovery in Paul Street
V. The Letter of Advice
VI. The Suicides
VII. The Encounter in Soho
VIII. The Fragments
The White People
Prologue
The Green Book
Epilogue
The Red Hand
The Problem of the Fish-Hooks
Incident of the Letter
Search for the Vanished Heaven
The Artist of the Pavement
Story of the Treasure-house
The Black Seal
Prologue
Novel of the Black Seal
The Inmost Light
I
II
III
IV
V
The White Powder
Out of the Earth
Отрывок из книги
'I am glad you came, Clarke; very glad indeed. I was not sure you could spare the time.'
'I was able to make arrangements for a few days; things are not very lively just now. But have you no misgivings, Raymond? Is it absolutely safe?'
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The minutes passed slowly; they could hear a slow, heavy, ticking. There was an old clock in the passage. Clarke felt sick and faint; his knees shook beneath him, he could hardly stand.
Suddenly, as they watched, they heard a long-drawn sigh, and suddenly did the colour that had vanished return to the girl's cheeks, and suddenly her eyes opened. Clarke quailed before them. They shone with an awful light, looking far away, and a great wonder fell upon her face, and her hands stretched out as if to touch what was invisible; but in an instant the wonder faded, and gave place to the most awful terror. The muscles of her face were hideously convulsed, she shook from head to foot; the soul seemed struggling and shuddering within the house of flesh. It was a horrible sight, and Clarke rushed forward, as she fell shrieking to the floor.
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