Horror story is not result of accident.
The fire? It has been alive as long as I have. We talk and think together all night long. It__ like a book to me _ the only book I ever learned to read; and many an old story it tells me. It__ music, for I should know its voice among a thousand, and there are other voices in its roar. It has its pictures too. You don__ know how many strange faces and different scenes I trace in the red-hot coals. It__ my memory, that fire, and shows me all my life.
The Old Curiosity Shop
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The fire? It has been alive as long as I have. We talk and think together all night long. It__ like a book to me _ the only book I ever learned to read; and many an old story it tells me. It__ music, for I should know its voice among a thousand, and there are other voices in its roar. It has its pictures too. You don__ know how many strange faces and different scenes I trace in the red-hot coals. It__ my memory, that fire, and shows me all my life.
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