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The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast

S0213 The Turn Of The Screw Part 4

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast

Tony Walker

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.9835 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Everybody dies, don't they?

0:10.5

Everybody come back.

0:12.6

Isn't that same?

0:14.4

You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?

0:17.1

How do the dead come back, mother?

0:20.0

What's the secret?

0:22.6

Chapter 9

0:23.8

I waited and waited, and the days as they elapsed,

0:31.3

took something from my consternation.

0:34.6

A very few of them, in fact,

0:36.0

passing in constant sight of my pupils without a fresh incident,

0:40.2

suffice to give to grievous fancies and even to odious memories a kind of brush of the sponge.

0:47.4

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

0:54.1

and it may be imagined if

0:55.6

I neglected now to address myself to this source for whatever it would yield.

1:01.5

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

1:08.0

It would doubtless of been, however, a great attention still, had it not been so frequently

1:13.6

successful.

1:14.6

I used to wonder how my little charges could help guessing that I thought strange things about

1:19.6

them, and the circumstances that these things only made them more interesting was not by itself

1:25.6

a direct aid to keeping them in the dark.

1:28.6

I trembled, lest they should see that they were so immensely more interesting.

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