The Book of Shadows Vol 3

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Эдит Несбит. The Book of Shadows Vol 3

IN THE DARK

NO. 11 WELHAM SQUARE

MAN-SIZE IN MARBLE

WHEN I WAS DEAD

THE LIBRARY WINDOW

LOST HEARTS

THE SHADOWY THIRD

THE BEAST. WITH FIVE FINGERS

MRS. LUNT

THE STEP

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In the Dark

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“Good heavens, how horrible! But no word of this was mentioned at the inquest?”

“No; and I did not hear of it myself till long afterwards, from a woman who had been Vandeleur’s housekeeper, but was too much afraid of him to betray him at the time. From her, too, I learnt by what refined cruelty the poor little lad’s nerves had been shaken and his health undermined. If ‘the intention makes the deed,’ James Vandeleur was a murderer.”

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