The book The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman was written by author Angela Carter Here you can read free online of The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman a good or bad book?
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I knelt gratefully beside the stove for I was shivering while he, muttering, began to potter about making a meal for me. I was surprised and touched by these unhandy preparations. He opened a cardboard box, his larder, and took out half a loaf and a heel of rat-trap cheese on a tin plate; then he poured cold coffee from a bottle into a chipped enamel saucepan and set it on top of the stove to warm. ‘I had a change of orders,’ he explained. ‘Got to look after you. Got to see you get there safe an...d sound. She came herself and told me.’ ‘She?’ ‘The she of she’s. His daughter.’ ‘Albertina?’ I had never spoken the name aloud before. ‘You’re smart,’ he applauded. ‘Oh, you know the nature of plus all right’. ‘I can,’ I said, ‘put two and two together.’ ‘Where’ve you been since you did for poor Mary Anne?’ But he leered and grimaced as he spoke so I knew he knew I knew he knew I had not, in fact, murdered the unfortunate girl but that, for some reason, I was now forced to pretend that I had.
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