“It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Hound of the Baskervilles
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“The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.”
The Fire of Drift-wood, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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