[It will pain him little, he says! As if she isn't being actively pained in this very moment despite having lain back in bed where the full weight of her dread might be more comfortably spread the length of her person rather than only weighing at her shoulders and on the top of her head.
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Her mistake had been allowing Ellis the chickens. Everyone knows that where one animal exists, more will follow. And now there are the hens and Déranger and the second basement for Veronique and a goat living indoors and no doubt soon the neighbor's cat will decide she prefers Wysteria's side of the wall to her own, and what then?
Calamity.]
Is it? I thought it all quite ugly.