The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

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1. No; it was a big, ugly, antique, but convenient house, embodying a few features of a building still older, half replaced and half utilized, in which I had the fancy of our being almost as lost as a handful of passengers in a great drifting ship. Well, I was, strangely, at the helm!


2. I was so determined to have all my proof that I flashed into ice to challenge him.
   “Whom do you mean by ‘he’?”
   “Peter Quint—you devil!”


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