A Whim, and Its Consequences EPUB
by G.P.R. James
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Excerpt: "A solitary room at midnight: a single wax candle lighted on the table: the stiff dull crimson silken curtains of the bed close drawn: half a dozen phials and two or three glasses.
Is it the chamber of a sick man? He must sleep sound if it be, for there is no noise-not even a breath; and all without is as still as death.
There is awe in the silence; the candle sheds gloom, not light, the damask hanging sucks up the rays, and gives nothing back: they sink into the dark wood furniture: one could hear a mouse creep over the thick carpet; but there is no sound!
Is it the chamber of the dead? But where is the watcher?-Away! and what matters it here? No one will come to disturb the rest of that couch: no brawling voices, no creaking doors will make vibrate the dull cold ear of death.
Watch ye the living! The dead need no watching: the sealed eyes and the clayed ears have sleep that cannot be broken.
But is it the watcher who comes back again through that slowly opening door?
No, that is a man; and we give all the more sad and solemn tasks of life to women."
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- Publication Date:15/08/2018
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