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The Millionaire Baby

By Anna Katharine Green

2020-10-13 20:35:06

So unreal and dreamlike, this apparition in the night seemed, lit by periodic flashes of lightening. I was tired, and more than usually susceptible . . . yet the night had no unfamiliar effects for me, even on the borders of this great river. Perhaps ... Read more
So unreal and dreamlike, this apparition in the night seemed, lit by periodic flashes of lightening. I was tired, and more than usually susceptible . . . yet the night had no unfamiliar effects for me, even on the borders of this great river. Perhaps I was still alarmed from that moment, an hour before, when I raised my lantern in that room, to gaze upon the doleful mystery of half a century back -- and current site of an even more moving mystery. Yet that experience had the sharpness of fact -- while this lightning-lit figure seemed almost a figment of imagination. ""Guilty!"" Less

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File size452.455 KB
Print pages192
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-8132045595
Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate...

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