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The Secret Agent

CHAPTER XI
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And incredible as it may appear, the eyes of Mrs Verloc seemed to grow still larger.

The audible wish of Mr Verloc's overflowing heart flowed into an empty place in his wife's memory.

Greenwich Park.

A park! That's where the boy was killed.

A park--smashed branches, torn leaves, gravel, bits of brotherly flesh and bone, all spouting up together in the manner of a firework.
She remembered now what she had heard, and she remembered it pictorially.
They had to gather him up with the shovel.


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