We Have Always Lived in the Castle 我们一直住在城堡里（英文版）_【美】雪莉·杰克逊_AZW3_MOBI_EPUB_PDF_电子书（无页码）_【美】雪莉·杰克逊

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4 On Sunday morning the change was one day nearer. I was resolute about not thinking my three magic words and would not let them into my mind, but the air of change was so strong that there was no avoiding it; change lay over the stairs and the kitchen and the garden like fog. I would not forget my magic words; they were MELODY GLOUCESTER PEGASUS, but I refused to let them into my mind. The weather was uneasy on Sunday morning and I thought that perhaps Jonas would succeed after all in running up a storm; the sun shone into the kitchen but there were clouds moving quickly across the sky and a sharp little breeze that came in and out of the kitchen while I had my breakfast. "Wear your boots if you wander today," Constance told me. "I don't expect that Uncle Julian will sit outdoors today; it will be far too cool for him." "Pure spring weather," Constance said, and smiled out at her garden. "I love you, Constance," I said. "I love you too, silly Merricat." "Is Uncle Julian better?" "I don't think so. He had his tray while you were still asleep, and I thought he seemed very tired. He said he had an extra pill during the night. I think perhaps he is getting worse." "Are you worried about him?" "Yes. Very." "Will he die?" "Do you know what he said to me this morning?" Constance turned, leaning against the sink, and looked at me with sadness. "He thought I was Aunt Dorothy, and he held my hand and said, 'It's terrible to be old, and just lie here wondering when it will happen.' He almost frightened me." "You should have let me take him to the moon," I said. "I gave him his hot milk and then he remembered who I was." I thought that Uncle Julian was probably really very happy, with both Constance and Aunt Dorothy to take care of him, and I told myself that long thin things would remind me to be kinder to Uncle Julian; this was to be a day of long thin things, since there had already been a hair in my toothbrush, and a fragment of a string was caught on the side of my chair......

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