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Этель Лина Уайт. Колесо крутится. Леди исчезает / The Wheel Spins. The Lady Vanishe
Chapter one. Without regret
Chapter two. The threat
Chapter three. Conversation piece
Chapter four. England calling
Chapter five. The night express
Chapter six. The waiting-room
Chapter seven. Passengers
Chapter eight. Tea-interval
Chapter nine. Compatriots
Chapter ten. The vacant seat
Chapter eleven. Needle in a haystack
Chapter twelve. Witnesses
Chapter thirteen. A dream within a dream
Chapter fourteen. Fresh evidence
Chapter fifteen. Transformation scene
Chapter sixteen. The star witness
Chapter seventeen. There was no miss Froy
Chapter eighteen. The surprise
Chapter nineteen. The hidden hand
Chapter twenty. Strangers intervene
Chapter twenty-one. Lies
Chapter twenty-two. Killing time
Chapter twenty-three. Stake your counter
Chapter twenty-four. The Wheel Spins
Chapter twenty-five. ”Strange disappearance”
Chapter twenty-six. Signature
Chapter twenty-seven. The acid test
Chapter twenty-eight. Raise your hand
Chapter twenty-nine. Trieste
Chapter thirty. Recantation
Chapter thirty-one. A cup of soup
Chapter thirty-two. The dream
Chapter thirty-three. The herald
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The day before the disaster, Iris Carr had her first premonition of danger. She was used to the protection of a crowd, whom – with unconscious flattery – she called “her friends.” An attractive orphan of independent means, she had been surrounded always with clumps of people. They thought for her – or rather, she accepted their opinions, and they shouted for her – since her voice was rather too low in register, for mass social intercourse.
Their constant presence tended to create the illusion that she moved in a large circle, in spite of the fact that the same faces recurred with seasonal regularity. They also made her pleasantly aware of popularity. Her photograph appeared in the pictorial papers through the medium of a photographer’s offer of publicity, after the Press announcement of her engagement to one of the crowd.
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The description flattered her, for she had not the slightest claim to the title of linguist. Her ignorance of foreign languages was the result of being finished at Paris and Dresden. During the time she was at school, she mixed exclusively with other English girls, while the natives who taught her acquired excellent English accents.
This was her rendering of the line in the National Anthem—”Send us victorious.”
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