The turn of the screw / by Henry James

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<dTitle type=main>The Turn of the Screw</dTitle>
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<dAuthor>Henry James</dAuthor> </byLine>
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<p>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.  The case, I may mention, was that of an apparition 
in just such an old house as had gathered us for the occasion&mdash; 
an appearance, of a dreadful kind, to a little boy sleeping 
in the room with his mother and waking her up in the terror of it; 
waking her not to dissipate his dread and soothe him to sleep again, 
but to encounter also, herself, before she had succeeded in doing so, 
the same sight that had shaken him.  It was this observation 
that drew from Douglas& . . .

The turn of the screw / by Henry James

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