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Bowen Marjorie. Collected Twilight Stories, Vol. II
Collected Twilight Stories, Vol. II
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DARK ANN
DECAY
Published in Seeing Life! And Other Stories, Hurst & Blackett, London, 1923
GIUDETTA'S WEDDING NIGHT
Published in: Shadows of Yesterday, Stories from an Old Catalogue, Smith, Elder Co., London, 1916 and in Twilight and Other Supernatural Romances, Ash-Tree Press, 1998
A STRANGER KNOCKED
Published in The Fireside Book of Yuletide Stories, Bobbs-Merril Co., Indianapolis, 1948
THEY FOUND MY GRAVE
Published in Orange Blossoms, Heinemann 1938 Also published in The Fireside Book of Ghost Stories, Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, 1947
BRENT'S FOLLY
Published in Crimes of Old London, Odhams Ltd., London, 1919
THE CONFESSION OF BEAU SEKFORDE
Published as "The Housekeeper" in Crimes of Old London, Odhams Ltd., London, 1919
THE FOLDING DOORS
First published in Pearson's Magazine, Dec 1912
THE END
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Marjorie Bowen
Published by Good Press, 2021
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He paused, and when he continued I had the strangest sensation, for this man, so dry, so austere, so conventionally clothed, whom I had heard lecturing on 'Sanitation', whose reputation was so lofty, whose life and career were well known to have been so dry, cold and laborious, spoke like a poet making an embroidery of beautiful words.
'A woman,' he went on with infinite tenderness. 'She lay lightly to one side with her arms crossed, so that the delicate fingers rested on her rounded elbows, but so lightly! She wore a plain robe and a cap, with a crimped edge, tied under her chin; tucked into her breast was a posy of flowers, winter flowers, aconite, I think. She was so fine, so airy that she did not press the bed at all, but rested there, as a little bird might rest on a water flower without rippling the pool.
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