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"Twenty one years of it" said Mr White, looking at his wife and son.
The Monkey's Paw
"Why do you say I have lost control of my mind? Why do you say I am mad?"
The Tell Tale Heart
"Good Heavens! I believe she's following me!"
Mabel
"...but this is the day the scientists predict, they say, they know, the sun..."
All Summer in a Day
"School? What's there to write about school? I hate school"
The Fun They Had
"A-Will you buy my hair? B- I buy hair, take your hat off and let me look at it"
The Gift of the Magi
"I wish for two hundred pounds" said the old man clearly.
The Monkey's Paw
"The time had come, I rush into the room crying: Die! Die!"
The Tell-Tale Heart
"You haven't changed...men can change so much in seven years and I was afraid you got fat and lost your hair"
Mabel
She was very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain washed out the blue from her eyes"
All Summer in a Day
"Well, I don't know what kind of school they had all that time ago...anyway they had a Teacher"
The Fun They Had
"...Dear, she cried, don't look at me like that! I had my hair cut off and I sold it. I couldn't live through Christmas without giving you a gift.
The Gift of the Magi
"No! She cried excitedly, we'll have one more. Go down and get it quickly and wish- Oh my boy! My boy!
The Monkey's Paw
I push my chair across the floor to make more noise, to cover that terrible noise. I talked even loudly.
The Tell-Tale Heart
" If you are a consul, you can marry us. I´m ready to marry him as soon as I´ve had a bath" and she did.
Mabel
...these children who could ever remember a time when there wasn't rain and rain.
All Summer in a Day
