The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce5/22/2023 ![]() The man with the book was not reading aloud, and no one spoke allseemed to be waiting for something to occur the dead man only waswithout expectation. By extending anarm any one of them could have touched the eighth man, who lay on thetable, face upward, partly covered by a sheet, his arms at his sides. The shadow of the book wouldthen throw into obscurity a half of the room, darkening a number offaces and figures for besides the reader, eight other men were present.Seven of them sat against the rough log walls, silent and motionless,and, the room being small, not very far from the table. ![]() It was anold account book, greatly worn and the writing was not, apparently,very legible, for the man sometimes held the page close to the flame ofthe candle to get a stronger light upon it. ![]() Putnam's Sonsīy THE light of a tallow candle, which had been placed on one end of arough table, a man was reading something written in a book. From "In the Midst of Life," copyright, 1898,by G. ![]()
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