Vacation weirdness. I sat on the opposite side of the street and just couldn’t look away.
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[Photo of a cityscape by night: In the foreground there are two huge and very colourful flower arrangements. They are taller than people. Their form reminds me of the ghosts from a Pac-Man game. Behind the ghosts there is a deserted street. On the other side, there is a lantern with two lamps standing right behind the right ghost. In the background parts of a modern church building are visible: The roof is like a light grey crooked pyramid, tilted to the right. On its top there is a tall, steep church spire, pointing up, also in light grey. The lines of the pyramid’s ground and right side would meet directly where the lantern and the ghost meet, but this part of the church is hidden by a round, very green tree. It is illuminated by invisible spotlights pointed at the church. The sky is black and clear, there are rays of light from the next street lights shining from both upper corners of the image. Could you draw it from this description?]
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And now that I have carried this history so far in my own character and introduced these personages to the reader, I shall for the convenience of the narrative detach myself from its further course, and leave those who have prominent and necessary parts in it to speak and act for themselves.
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It will be sufficient to say that the lesson was given—that evening passed and night came on—that the old man again grew restless and impatient—that he quitted the house secretly at the same hour as before—and that the child was once more left alone within its gloomy walls.
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Many things he had said which I had been at a loss to understand, were quite reconcilable with the idea thus presented to me, and at length I concluded that beyond all doubt he was one of this unhappy race.
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She shall have no pittance, but a fortune—Hush! I can say no more than that, now or at any other time, and she is here again!’
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‘A word in your ear, sir,’ said the old man in a hurried whisper. ‘I have been rendered uneasy by what you said the other night, and can only plead that I have done all for the best—that it is too late to retract, if I could (though I cannot)—and that I hope to triumph yet. All is for her sake.
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The poor bird yonder is as well qualified to encounter it, and be turned adrift upon its mercies—Hark! I hear Kit outside. Go to him, Nell, go to him.’
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‘When I think,’ said he, ‘of the many years—many in thy short life—that thou has lived with me; of my monotonous existence, knowing no companions of thy own age nor any childish pleasures; of the solitude in which thou has grown to be what thou art, and in which thou hast lived apart from nearly all thy kind but one old man; I sometimes fear I have dealt hardly by thee, Nell.’
‘Grandfather!’ cried the child in unfeigned surprise.
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The old man almost answered my thoughts, as he laid his hand on hers, and spoke aloud.
‘I’ll be of better cheer, Nell,’ he said; ‘there must be good fortune in store for thee—I do not ask it for myself, but thee. Such miseries must fall on thy innocent head without it, that I cannot believe but that, being tempted, it will come at last!’
She looked cheerfully into his face, but made no answer.
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It was curious, but not so pleasant, to turn from the beauty and grace of the girl, to the stooping figure, care-worn face, and jaded aspect of the old man. As he grew weaker and more feeble, what would become of this lonely little creature; poor protector as he was, say that he died—what would be her fate, then?
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