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Now again in the spring the wind breathed in the house, flies buzzed round in the
warm yellow spot of sunshine, & there winds could be heard,
tapping the window pane, long weedsgrasses61, stray wild flowers,
which had grown close to the glass in the night.
When darkness fell, the stroke of the lighthouse which had
laid itself with authority upon the carpet when the nights
were dark came mixed with moonlight gliding gently &
stealthily as if it laid its caress/ on the empty
 bed & lingered & looked & went &
came lovingly again. ....
The curved tooth on the lower jaw of the skull was unc laid bare;
& then the strea shawl, which now hung down like a streamer,
waved gently this way & that, throughout the short spring
nights & the silver robed - by the moon & the lighthouse, &
the long summer days when all the empty rooms seemed
to hum with murmur with the with the echoes[?]62 of the
fields & the hum of flies, & the the [?]li light so
sun so barred & striped the rooms, th so & filled
them with a hazyliquid yellow that Mrs. MacNab, when she
came to dust, looked like a tropical fish, oaring
her w its way through thea sun-lanced water sea.
Up rose the bookcases like rocks; the tables floated amonglike islands;
strange corals & crystals. glowed & twinkled on the
But slumber though it might without apparent change through
ran for a as the there came later in the summer ominous
sounds which, thuds, rumbles, like regular thunder
regularly repeated, which with their repeated shocks still
further loosened the shawl & distu helped the wind & the
damp sea air at their insidious task. [to nibble, to undo, to

.like the repeated blow of a heavy63 hammer or a [?] thick substance

[?]dull, [?] & tarnish & slowly eat away the house a ]
in their work of disintegrated. destruction. Once in a
Now & again the some glass actually tinkled as if it

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