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Uncle Silas

CHAPTER VI
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_A WALK IN THE WOOD_ Two little pieces of by-play in which I detected her confirmed my unpleasant suspicion.

From the corner of the gallery I one day saw her, when she thought I was out and all quiet, with her ear at the keyhole of papa's study, as we used to call the sitting-room next his bed-room.

Her eyes were turned in the direction of the stairs, from which only she apprehended surprise.

Her great mouth was open, and her eyes absolutely goggled with eagerness.

She was devouring all that was passing there.
I drew back into the shadow with a kind of disgust and horror.


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