Suddenly, she heard a loud bang, a thump and a scream that caused her to jump from the bed. The hair on the back of her neck stood straight up and her body became one big goosebump.
For know you, child, I have that faculty which is better than any one sense, better than a perfect body, better than courage and will, better than experience, ordinarily the best product of the longest lives__he faculty divinest of men, but which___e stopped, and laughed again, not bitterly, but with real zest___ut which even the great do not sufficiently account, while with the herd it is a non-existent__he faculty of drawing men to my purpose and holding them faithfully to its achievement, by which, as against things to be done, I multiply myself into hundreds and thousands.
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For know you, child, I have that faculty which is better than any one sense, better than a perfect body, better than courage and will, better than experience, ordinarily the best product of the longest lives__he faculty divinest of men, but which___e stopped, and laughed again, not bitterly, but with real zest___ut which even the great do not sufficiently account, while with the herd it is a non-existent__he faculty of drawing men to my purpose and holding them faithfully to its achievement, by which, as against things to be done, I multiply myself into hundreds and thousands.
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