Turn of The Screw quotes- The ghosts

The Ghosts

‘He did stand there!- but high up, beyond the lawn and at the very top of the tower’
‘There came to me thus a bewilderment of vision’
‘All the rest of the scene had been stricken with death’
‘The friendly hour lost, for the minute, all its voice’
‘Was as definite as a picture in a frame’
‘Looking at me hard all the while’
‘He’s a horror’
‘But he’s like nobody’
‘He has red hair…and a pale face’
‘Quint was much to free’

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‘Quint was so clever- he was so deep’
‘The apparation’
‘A figure of quite as unmistakable horror and evil: a woman in black, pale and dreadful’
‘Wonderfully handsome. But infamous’
‘Impudent, assured, spoiled, depraved’
‘He did what he wished’.. with them all’
‘The two wretches’
‘We faced each other in our common intensity’
‘Some enemy, some adventurer, some criminal’

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‘The silence itself…became the element into which I saw the figure disappear
‘I had been there but an instant, however, when she vanished without looking round at me’
‘A figure prowling for a sight’
‘Dishonoured and tragic’
‘Even as I fixed and, for memory secured it the awful image passed away’
‘Dark as midnight in her black dress, her haggard beauty and her unutterable woe’
‘Pale and ravenous demon’
‘The hideous plain presence’
‘Peter Quint had come into view like a sentinal before a prison’
‘His white face of damnation’

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