In spite of all that has happened since , I still remember remember that vigil vigil very distinctly : the black and silent observatory , the shadowed lantern throwing a feeble glow glow upon the floor in the corner , the steady ticking of the clockwork of the telescope , the little slit in the roof -- an oblong profundity with the stardust streaked across it .

Near it in the field , I remember remember , were three faint points of light , three telescopic stars infinitely remote , and all around it was the unfathomable darkness of empty space .

I remember remember how I sat on the table there in the blackness , with patches of green and crimson swimming swim before my eyes .

I was present present myself , and I remember remember to have felt quite uncomfortable and confused , at a part of myself being disposed of in that way .

How well do I remember remember her parlour half filled with the organ which her husband had built , and scented with a withered apple or two from the _ pyrus japonica _ that grew outside the house ; the picture of the prize ox over the chimney-piece , which Mr Pontifex himself had painted ; the transparency of the man coming to show light to a coach upon a snowy night , also by Mr Pontifex ; the little old man and little old woman who told the weather ; the china shepherd and shepherdess ; the jars of feathery flowering grasses with a peacock 's feather or two among them to set them off , and the china bowls full of dead rose leaves dried with bay salt .

I remember remember my father once sent send me down to his workship to get some glue , and I happened to come come when old Pontifex was in the act of scolding scold his boy .

Another time I remember remember hearing hear him call call the village rat-catcher by saying say , " Come hither , thou three-days-and-three-nights , thou , " alluding allude , as I afterwards learned learn , to the rat-catcher 's periods of intoxication ; but I will tell no more of such trifles .

Not that I know much of ancient Danes , though I knew a modern Dane who did me out of ten pounds ; but I remember remember once seeing a picture of some of those gentry , who , I take it , were a kind of white Zulus .

well did the tall stately girl of eighteen remember remember the tears tear shed with such wild passion of grief grief by the little girl of nine , as she hid hide her face under the bed-clothes , in that first night ; and how she was bidden bid not to cry by the nurse , because it would disturb Miss Edith ; and how she had cried cry as bitterly , but more quietly quietly , till her newly-seen newly , grand , pretty aunt had come come softly upstairs with Mr. Hale to show him his little sleeping sleep daughter .

I can , even now , remember remember the hour from which I dedicated dedicated myself to this great enterprise enterprise .

They entered enter the vestibule and sat sit themselves down before the wide hearth , where , I remember remember , a particularly good fire fire of logs was burning .

THE TURN OF THE SCREW The story had held hold us , round the fire fire , sufficiently breathless breathless , but except the obvious remark remark that it was gruesome , as , on Christmas Eve in an old house , a strange tale should essentially be , I remember remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say say that it was the only case he had met meet in which such a visitation visitation had fallen on a child .

I remember remember asking ask .

I remember remember the time and the place -- the corner of the lawn , the shade of the great beeches and the long , hot summer afternoon .

Part I 01 My Early Home The first place that I can well remember remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it .

To remember remember that and the white look of the lavatory made him feel cold cold and then hot hot .

I remember remember him as if it were yesterday , as he came plodding plod to the inn door , his sea-chest following follow behind him in a hand-barrow -- a tall , strong , heavy , nut-brown man , his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat , his hands ragged and scarred , with black , broken nails , and the sabre cut across one cheek , a dirty , livid white .

I remember remember him looking look round the cover and whistling whistle to himself as he did so , and then breaking break out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards : " Fifteen men on the dead man 's chest -- Yo-ho-ho , and a bottle of rum ! "

I remember remember the appearance of his coat , which he patched himself upstairs in his room , and which , before the end , was nothing but patches .

I followed follow him in , and I remember remember observing observe the contrast the neat , bright doctor , with his powder as white as snow and his bright , black eyes and pleasant manners , made with the coltish country folk , and above all , with that filthy , heavy , bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours , sitting , far gone go in rum , with his arms on the table .