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Here, the latch of Madame Beck's chamber-door (opening into the nursery) gave a sudden click, as if the hand holding it had been slightly convulsed; there was the suppressed explosion of an irrepressible sneeze. These little accidents will happen to the best of us. Madame - excellent woman! - was there on duty. (...)
— Apr 13, 2026 09:47AM
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Luís
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(...) While wishing this, I suddenly felt colder where I had been cold before, and more powerless where I had been weak before. I tried to reach the porch of a great building near, but the mass of frontage and the giant spire turned black and vanished from my eyes. Instead of sinking on the steps as I intended, I seemed to pitch headlong down an abyss. I remember no more.
— Apr 14, 2026 01:55PM
Luís
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From that day, I ceased to be a nursery governess and became an English teacher. Madame raised my salary, but she got thrice the work out of me she had extracted from Mr. Wilson, at half the expense.
— Apr 12, 2026 08:10AM
Luís
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She composed herself as if to slumber.I,too,retired to my crib in a closet within her room.The night passed in quietness;quietly her doom must at last have come:peacefully and painlessly:in the morning she was found without life,nearly cold,but all calm and undistorted.Her previous excitement of spirits and change of mood had been the prelude of a fit; (...)
— Apr 11, 2026 02:26PM
