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Not that there was anything specially remarkable about the houseitself, which indeed, in its best days, presented an aspect of rathersnug respectability. But the events I am about to relate invested itwith an evil reputation, and made it an object to be contemplated at asafe distance, rather than from any near approach. Youngsters on theirway to school were wont to eye it askance as they hurried by on theirway to their daily tasks. Even children of a larger growth manifestedno unbecoming desire... to penetrate too curiously into its innermysteries, and for years its threshold was seldom or never crossed byanybody except Simon Washburn or some of his clerks, who about once inevery twelvemonth made a quiet entry upon the premises and placed inthe front windows announcements to the effect that the place was "ForSale or To Let. " The printing of these announcements involved a uselessexpenditure of capital, for, from the time when the character of thehouse became matter of notoriety, no one could be induced to try theexperiment of living in it.
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