Collier's, Volume 67Crowell-Collier, 1921 |
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Page 32
... door with a dreamy and vacant regard . His dinner jacket fitted him so tightly that it might have been expected at any moment to split at the seams . As if to precipitate the catastrophe , he wore it buttoned . There came a rap at the door ...
... door with a dreamy and vacant regard . His dinner jacket fitted him so tightly that it might have been expected at any moment to split at the seams . As if to precipitate the catastrophe , he wore it buttoned . There came a rap at the door ...
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... door had been opened . Just beyond the threshold , staring at me , stood my wife . The moon- light seemed green about her face , blurring the features , as if the face itself were a little phos- phorescent . The whole vision was as ...
... door had been opened . Just beyond the threshold , staring at me , stood my wife . The moon- light seemed green about her face , blurring the features , as if the face itself were a little phos- phorescent . The whole vision was as ...
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... door within a deep - columned portico . Garth climbed the steps , found the bell handle , and rang . Without delay he heard , muffled by the heavy door , approaching footsteps . The door was swung wide . It was as if to the occu- pants ...
... door within a deep - columned portico . Garth climbed the steps , found the bell handle , and rang . Without delay he heard , muffled by the heavy door , approaching footsteps . The door was swung wide . It was as if to the occu- pants ...
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... door stood open as he had left it the previous evening ; but Allen had been right . The late light seemed incapable of penetrating the gloomy vault . Snow , however , had " Why aren't you in bed ? What in whirled in , and made a white ...
... door stood open as he had left it the previous evening ; but Allen had been right . The late light seemed incapable of penetrating the gloomy vault . Snow , however , had " Why aren't you in bed ? What in whirled in , and made a white ...
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... door had to be opened . In order for it to vanish from his sight the door had to be closed . A pretty material vision , I thought at once . " And you remember that the face was phosphorescent , an old trick to frighten credulous people ...
... door had to be opened . In order for it to vanish from his sight the door had to be closed . A pretty material vision , I thought at once . " And you remember that the face was phosphorescent , an old trick to frighten credulous people ...
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