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| 1 | 184 | The View more quotes about thought">thought came to me that the ring, which I had dropped in my pocket, might similarly burst into flame, but, unaccountably perhaps, I doubted it. |
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| 1 | 181 | There was no trace of the envelope. |
| 1 | 182 | It seemed to have been totally consumed. |
| 1 | 183 | There was an unpleasant, acrid odor in the air, some fumes of a sort that I was not familiar with. |
| 1 | 184 | The thought came to me that the ring, which I had dropped in my pocket, might similarly burst into flame, but, unaccountably perhaps, I doubted it. |
| 1 | 185 | There might be a point in someone's destroying the letter, but presumably there would be little point or no point in destroying the ring. |
| 1 | 186 | Why should it have been sent if not to have been kept? Besides, I had been warned about the letter—a warning I had foolishly neglected—but had been asked to carry the ring. |
| 1 | 187 | Whatever it was, father or no, that was the source of these frightening events, it did not seem to wish me harm, but then, I thought, somewhat bitterly, floods and earthquakes presumably wish no one harm either. |