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@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 209 *** + + + + The Turn of the Screw by Henry James @@ -1423,7 +1427,7 @@ told me. I myself had kept back nothing, but there was a word Mrs. Grose had kept back. I was sure, moreover, by morning, that this was not from a failure of frankness, but because on every side there were fears. It seems to me indeed, in retrospect, that by the time the -morrow’s sun was high I had restlessly read into the fact before us +morrow’s sun was high I had restlessly read into the facts before us almost all the meaning they were to receive from subsequent and more cruel occurrences. What they gave me above all was just the sinister figure of the living man—the dead one would keep awhile!—and of the @@ -3498,7 +3502,7 @@ to go back alone. And now her brother has managed it for her.” Mrs. Grose still stood where she had stopped. “You suppose they really _talk_ of them?” -“I could meet this with a confidence! They say things that, if we heard +I could meet this with a confidence! “They say things that, if we heard them, would simply appall us.” “And if she _is_ there—” |