Word: evercreech
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...appears, and Marian is conveyed to a gloomy, candlelit stone pile inhabited by a coven of skulkers who might have been left over from an Orson Welles production of Wuthering Heights. There is the hulking, rock-silent retainer, Scottow, a homosexual. There is the mad hag, Violet Evercreech. And there is the young mistress of the manor, Hannah Crean-Smith. It develops that there are no children for Marian to oversee; she has been hired, rather slyly, to read La Princesse de Cléves to Hannah. And what is wrong with Hannah? She is a prisoner, that...
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