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This is a very nice story
Chapter 1
THE TURN OF THE SCREW
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child. ... Someone else told a story not particularly effective, which I saw he was not following. ... That came out -- she couldnt tell her story without its coming out. ... "
"The story will tell," I took upon myself to reply.
"Oh, I cant wait for the story!"
"The story wont tell," said Douglas; "not in any literal, vulgar way. ... The last story, however incomplete and like the mere opening of a serial, had been told; we handshook and "candlestuck," as somebody said, and went to bed. ... One of the thoughts that, as I dont in the least shrink now from noting, used to be with me in these wanderings was that it would be as charming as a charming story suddenly to meet someone. ...
I scarce know how to put my story into words that shall be a credible picture of my state of mind; but I was in these days literally able to find a joy in the extraordinary flight of heroism the occasion demanded of me, I now saw that I had been asked for a service admirable and difficult; and there would be a greatness in letting it be seen -- oh, in the right quarter! ... They had a delightful endless appetite for passages in my own history, to which I had again and again treated them; they were in possession of everything that had ever happened to me, had had, with every circumstance the story of my smallest adventures and of those of my brothers and sisters and of the cat and the dog at home, as well as many particulars of the eccentric nature of my father, of the furniture and arrangement of our house, and of the conversation of the old women of our village. ... "
"And should you like him to write our story?
Approximate Word count = 42813
Approximate Pages = 171.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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