unearths some literary gems.
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[from “The Waters of the Moon”]
Peifer looked at me as if I were the precipitate of a moderately successful test-tube experiment.
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[from “A Final Note on Chanda Bell”]
Charles Vayne, as regular and as futile as a clock in an empty house, showed up once a week.
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[ditto]
“Not to appear in any of her books was wonderful enough, but not to appear in all of them….”
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