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THE LIGHTHOUSEmeant that something had started the sense of her,as still by opening a drawer in a cupboard orlooking at a face—Rose’s for instance—throughone’s fingers one could recover her absolutely fora moment. But it was horrible;Unknown hand: Black pen draws box around passage and cancels with diagonal line. [%] Unknown hand: Black pen draws box around passage and cancels with diagonal line. —andyroowelchno ¶ Unknown hand: Black pen draws box around passage and cancels with diagonal line. —andyroowelchtT Unknown hand. —peter.shillingsburghe strain wasacute. For in one moment if there was no breeze,his father would slap the covers of his book to-gether, and say: “What’s happening now? Whatare we dawdling about here for, eh?” as, oncebefore he had brought his blade down among themon the terrace and she had gone stiff all over, and ifthere had been an axe handy, a knife, or anythingwith a sharp point he would have seized it andstruck his father through the heart. She had gonestiff all over, and then, her arm slackening, so thathe felt she listened to him no longer, she had risensomehow and gone away and left him there,impotent, ridiculous, sitting on the floor graspinga pair of scissors.

Not a breath of wind blew. The waterchuckled and gurgled in the bottom of the boatwhere three or four mackerel beat their tails upand down in a pool of water not deep enough tocover them. At any moment Mr. Ramsay (hescarcely dared look at him) might rouse himself,shut his book, and say something sharp; but forthe moment he was reading, so that Jamesstealthily, as if he were stealing downstairs on bare287