The Teacher's Tales of Terror (2011)
“It was dark outside and the candlelight made the hair shimmer like fine strands of copper.
Tears began to well in Lady Overton’s eyes as she looked out of the tall bay window, beyond her own pale reflection, towards the family mausoleum and the mighty cypress trees that stood behind it, silhouetted like wrought-iron spikes against the indigo sky.
For it was three months since poor Lydia had been laid to rest in that very tomb; three months since Lady Overton had said farewell to a precious daug...hter, and poor Eleanor had lost her beloved twin.
A full moon glimmered blindly, cataract white, hidden now and then by ragged clouds, and the wind that moved those clouds also shook the cypresses and rattled the window frames. A draught fluttered the candle flames and made the shadows shake and jitter.
Eleanor seemed to guess her mother’s thoughts and smiled sweetly up at her in the reflection in the gilt-framed mirror that stood on the bedroom dressing table.
Lady Overton did her best to smile back.MoreLess
Tears began to well in Lady Overton’s eyes as she looked out of the tall bay window, beyond her own pale reflection, towards the family mausoleum and the mighty cypress trees that stood behind it, silhouetted like wrought-iron spikes against the indigo sky.
For it was three months since poor Lydia had been laid to rest in that very tomb; three months since Lady Overton had said farewell to a precious daug...hter, and poor Eleanor had lost her beloved twin.
A full moon glimmered blindly, cataract white, hidden now and then by ragged clouds, and the wind that moved those clouds also shook the cypresses and rattled the window frames. A draught fluttered the candle flames and made the shadows shake and jitter.
Eleanor seemed to guess her mother’s thoughts and smiled sweetly up at her in the reflection in the gilt-framed mirror that stood on the bedroom dressing table.
Lady Overton did her best to smile back.MoreLess
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