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"And with the mind of the Walker closed, the Dark's way into the house was closed too."

"He saw one form of Frank Dawson step easily out of the first, leaving his other self to fade as part of the present; the second form grew clearer and clearer as it came towards him, and after it in the same way came Old George, Young John, and the blue-eyed woman, and Will knew this had been the manner of his own arrival too."

"Beaumont's blessing went rolling out over the heads of the congregation: '...the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost....' But the words could not bring Will peace, for he knew that something was wrong, something loomed out of the Dark, something waiting, out there, and that when it came to the point he must meet it alone, unstrengthened."

"'What are they?'"

"To know so much, now, to be able to do so many things; it should have excited him, but he felt weighed down, melancholy, at the thought of all that had been and all that was to come."

"All his effort and questing was coming to an end before it had even properly begun, and there was nothing he could do."