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a Thief in The Night
LOOKING back on
events by the light of experience I perceive
clearly that the thunder-cloud which burst on me
and on those who were dear to me had not
gathered unseen. It is true that it had rolled
up swiftly; that the premonitory mutterings, now
so distinct but then so faint and insignificant,
gave but a brief warning. But that was of little
consequence, since whatever warnings there were
passed unheeded, as warnings commonly do, being
susceptible of interpretation only by means of
the subsequent events which they foreshadowed...
  Mr.
Pottermack's Oversight
THE afternoon of a sultry day near the
end of July was beginning to merge into evening.
The crimson eye of the declining sun peered out
through chinks in a bank of slaty cloud as if
taking a last look at the great level of land
and water before retiring for the night; while
already, in the soft, greenish grey of the
eastern sky, the new-risen moon hung like a
globe of pearl.
It was a solitary scene; desolate, if you will,
or peaceful. On the one hand the quiet waters of
a broad estuary; on the other a great stretch of
marshes; and between them the sea wall,
following faithfully the curves and indentations
of the shore and fading away at either end into
invisibility...
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