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Turn Of Screw
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Chapter
1. I Remember the Whole Beginning as a Succession of Flights and Drops, a
2. This Came Home to Me When, Two Days Later, I Drove Over with Flora to
3. Her Thus Turning Her Back on Me Was Fortunately Not, for My Just
4. It Was Not That I Didn't Wait, on This Occasion, for More, for I Was
5. Oh, She Let Me Know as Soon as, Round the Corner of the House, She
6. It Took of Course More Than That Particular Passage to Place Us
7. I Got Hold of Mrs. Grose as Soon After This as I Could; and I Can Give
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9. I Waited and Waited, and the Days, as They Elapsed, Took Something From
10. I Remained Awhile at the Top of the Stair, but with the Effect
11. It Was Not Till Late Next Day That I Spoke to Mrs. Grose; the Rigor
12. The Particular Impression I Had Received Proved in the Morning Light, I
13. It Was All Very Well to Join Them, but Speaking to Them Proved Quite as
14. Walking to Church a Certain Sunday Morning, I Had Little Miles at My
15. The Business Was Practically Settled From the Moment I Never Followed
16. I Had So Perfectly Expected That the Return of My Pupils Would Be
17. I Went So Far, in the Evening, as to Make a Beginning. the Weather Had
18. The Next Day, After Lessons, Mrs. Grose Found a Moment to Say to Me
19. We Went Straight to the Lake, as It Was Called at Bly, and I Daresay
20. Just as in the Churchyard with Miles, the Whole Thing Was Upon Us. Much
21. Before a New Day, in My Room, Had Fully Broken, My Eyes Opened to Mrs.
22. Yet It Was When She Had Got Off-And I Missed Her on the Spot-That the
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24. My Sense of How He Received This Suffered for a Minute From Something
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