6/29/2023 0 Comments The damned thing by ambrose bierceThe man with the book was not reading aloud, and no one spoke all seemed to be waiting for something to occur the dead man only was without expectation. By extending an arm any one of them could have touched the eighth man, who lay on the table, face upward, partly covered by a sheet, his arms at his sides. Seven of them sat against the rough log walls, silent and motionless, and, the room being small, not very far from the table. The shadow of the book would then throw into obscurity a half of the room, darkening a number of faces and figures for besides the reader, eight other men were present. It was an old account book, greatly worn and the writing was not, apparently, very legible, for the man sometimes held the page close to the flame of the candle to get a stronger light upon it. By THE light of a tallow candle, which had been placed on one end of a rough table, a man was reading something written in a book.
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