The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel by Louis Bayard

Author:Louis Bayard
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Crime & mystery, Mystery & Detective, General, Historical, Fiction
ISBN: 9780719567049
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 2007-04-19T07:00:00+00:00

"Yes, I suppose so. But how can they be said to return when they have never gone away?"

Her hand passed in front of her mouth--for what purpose, I could not ascertain until I heard the eructation of merriment spilling through her lips.

"Why is it, Mr. Poe, that I would sooner spend an hour with you in the"--again she laughed--"in the gloomiest contemplations than spend another minute speaking of dresses and baubles and the things that make most people happy?"

A solitary gleam now struck the base of the mountain on which we gazed. Miss Marquis, however, turned her attention away, and, with the assistance of a blunt stick, began idly to sketch abstract figures on the granite ledge.

"The other day," she said at length. "In the cemetery..."

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