Is Miles influenced by a ghost?

Henry James, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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Today we continue with the turn of the screw.

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And now, The Turn of the Screw, Part 2 of 3 by Henry James.

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I waited and waited.

The days took as they elapsed something from my consternation, a very few of them, in fact, passing in constant sight of my pupils, without a fresh

incident, suffice to give to grievous fancies and even to odious memories a kind of

brush of the sponge.

I have spoken of the surrender to their extraordinary childish grace as a thing I could actively

promote in myself, and it may be imagined if I neglected now to apply at this source for

whatever balm it would yield.

Stranger that I can express, certainly, was the effort to struggle against my new lights.

It would doubtless have been a greater tension still, however,

had it not been so frequently successful.

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