Algernon Blackwood by The Terror Of The Twins

Author:The Terror Of The Twins [Twins, The Terror Of The]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-11-15T13:25:15+00:00

Curtice, then, dropping his Bible, looked hard at him under the lamp. For in that second, even while the words sounded, there had come about a most abrupt and dreadful change; and so.swiftly that the

clergyman, in spite of himself, was taken utterly by surprise and had no time to think. There had swooped down upon the quiet library—so he puts it—an immense hushing silence, so profound that the peace

already reigning there seemed clamour by comparison; and out of this enveloping stillness there rose through the space about them a living and abominable Invasion—soft, motionless, terrific. It was as though vast engines, working at full speed and pressure, yet too swift and delicate to be appreciable to any definite sense, had suddenly dropped down upon them—from nowhere. ‘It made me think,’ the vicar used to say afterwards, ‘of the Mauretania machinery compressed into a

nutshell, yet losing none of its awful power.’

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