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Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Terror and Mystery

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    large as a tiger, but as black and sleek as ebony. It was simply a very enormous and very well-kept black cat, and it cuddled up and basked in that yellow pool of light exactly as a cat would do
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    Mr. Everard King, my unknown cousin, was standing in person upon the steps of his house, for he had seen us in the distance, and guessed that it was I. His appearance was very homely and benevolent, short and stout, forty-five years old, perhaps, with a round, good-humoured face, burned brown with the tropical sun, and shot with a thousand wrinkles.
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    took the slightest notice of me,
  • b1719552305fez uma citaçãoano passado
    There is surely something divine in man himself that he should rise so superior to the limitations which Creation seemed to impose—rise, too, by such unselfish, heroic devotion as this air-conquest has shown. Talk of human degeneration! When has such a story as this been written in the annals of our race?
  • b4616910503fez uma citaçãohá 5 anos
    But why should you expect otherwise of me
  • Bluep3nfez uma citaçãohá 7 anos
    "The torture of the water—the 'Extraordinary Question,' as it was called in the genial days of 'Le Roi Soleil.'
  • Bluep3nfez uma citaçãohá 7 anos
    done—that they could be done without God striking the villains dead.
  • Bluep3nfez uma citaçãohá 7 anos
    If you think of it, some of our popular observances show that the fact has already been recognized by our ancestors, although we, in our wisdom, have classed it among superstitions."
  • Bluep3nfez uma citaçãohá 7 anos
    I do not know whether it was from a look upon Dacre's face, or from some subtle suggestion in his manner,
  • Bluep3nfez uma citaçãohá 7 anos
    According to my theory, any object which has been intimately associated with any supreme paroxysm of human emotion, whether it be joy or pain, will retain a certain atmosphere or association which it is capable of communicating to a sensitive mind.
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