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Название книги: Bleeding Heart Square
Автор(ы): Andrew Taylor
Жанр: Современная проза
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For Ann and Christopher…don’t go of a night into Bleeding Heart Square, It’s a dark, little, dirty, black, ill-looking yard, With queer people about… -Extracted with modest modifications from “The Housewarming!!: A Legend of Bleedingheart Yard” (The Rev’d Richard Harris Barham: The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels, Third Series, 1847)
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SOMETIMES you frighten yourself. So what is it, exactly? A punishment? A distraction? A relief? You’re not sure. You tell yourself that it happened more than four years ago, that it doesn’t matter anymore and nothing you can do can change a thing. But you don’t listen, do you? All you do is go back to that nasty little green book.Thursday, 2 January 1930 Tomorrow I shall go to Bleeding Heart Square for the first time. It was young Mr. Orburn’s idea. I always think of him as young Mr. Orburn, though he must be 35 or 40 if he’s a day. He is young compared with his father, who used to call at my aunt’s, and she would give him Madeira and seed cake. All
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