Sublime

He enters the forest.

that some, out of fear, kept themselves hidden, and only exposed themselves to those upon whose sympathies they could be sure.

Sibyl—if

Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy rel

She walks home in a daze, thinking of the last thing Olivia said to her. “Gifts are fragile. You must never entrust yours to people who might break it.” She doesn’t say who she might be thinking of, and Barbara doesn’t need her to. She has what she needs and doesn’t expect to return to the Harris house again.

presentiments

He has black eyebrows and black hair on the back of his hands.

The two-way twit-twoo of tawny owls.