The Millionaire Baby
By Anna Katharine Green
13 Oct, 2020
So unreal and dreamlike, this apparition in the night seemed, lit by periodic flashes of lightening. I was tired, and more than usually susceptible . . . yet the night had no unfamiliar effects for me, even on the borders of this great river. Perhaps
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So unreal and dreamlike, this apparition in the night seemed, lit by periodic flashes of lightening. I was tired, and more than usually susceptible . . . yet the night had no unfamiliar effects for me, even on the borders of this great river. Perhaps I was still alarmed from that moment, an hour before, when I raised my lantern in that room, to gaze upon the doleful mystery of half a century back -- and current site of an even more moving mystery. Yet that experience had the sharpness of fact -- while this lightning-lit figure seemed almost a figment of imagination. ""Guilty!"" Less