THERE was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse. He had often said to me: ‘I am not long for this world, ‘ and I had thought his words idle. Now I knew they were true.
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 250 ● ISBN 9783748172567 ● 文件大小 0.4 MB ● 出版者 Books on Demand ● 发布时间 2019 ● 版 1 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 7419321 ● 复制保护 社会DRM