Here and Beyond

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Edith Wharton. Here and Beyond

Here and Beyond

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MISS MARY PASK

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THE YOUNG GENTLEMEN

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VI

BEWITCHED

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IV

THE SEED OF THE FAITH

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V

VI

THE TEMPERATE ZONE

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V

VELVET EAR-PADS

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V

THE END

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Edith Wharton

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Her choice of terms was certainly strange, and as she leaned back on the white slippery sofa and beckoned me with one of those unburied hands my impulse was to turn and run. But her old face, hovering there in the candle-light, with the unnaturally red cheeks like varnished apples and the blue eyes swimming in vague kindliness, seemed to appeal to me against my cowardice, to remind me that, dead or alive, Mary Pask would never harm a fly.

"Do sit down!" she repeated, and I took the other corner of the sofa.

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