The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris (2013)
“Brett, gazed down on the other distracted household in the town—the home of Dr. Harris—as if coldly noting the connection.
Between the two houses lay the silvered windows and phantom streets from which thieves, murderers and lovers alike all shrank into the concealment of the shadows. But their thoughts and schemes ever ventured abroad, crossing, linking, tangling, till the whole world seemed covered with a web of obscure motives in which even angels might be caught.
The old nurse who had looke...d after all the Harrises had been the first to scream. She’d gone to wake little Adelaide for her ten o’clock feed.
“Come, little one,” she’d crooned. “Come to—”
A beetle-browed infant with hair as black as sin opened its eyes and glared at her. She screamed, she shrieked, she ran distracted out of the room pursued by alien cries from the usurped crib.
Then terror, confusion and frantic grief seized the house till the very cobbles of its walls seemed turned to bulging eyes, all stony with amazement.MoreLess
Between the two houses lay the silvered windows and phantom streets from which thieves, murderers and lovers alike all shrank into the concealment of the shadows. But their thoughts and schemes ever ventured abroad, crossing, linking, tangling, till the whole world seemed covered with a web of obscure motives in which even angels might be caught.
The old nurse who had looke...d after all the Harrises had been the first to scream. She’d gone to wake little Adelaide for her ten o’clock feed.
“Come, little one,” she’d crooned. “Come to—”
A beetle-browed infant with hair as black as sin opened its eyes and glared at her. She screamed, she shrieked, she ran distracted out of the room pursued by alien cries from the usurped crib.
Then terror, confusion and frantic grief seized the house till the very cobbles of its walls seemed turned to bulging eyes, all stony with amazement.MoreLess
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