"Cornelia Funke - Inkheart" - читать интересную книгу автора (Funke Cornelia)

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36 IN CAPRICORN'S HOUSE
37 CARELESSNESS
38 A QUIET VOICE
39 THE PUNISHMENT FOR TRAITORS
40 THE BLACK HORSE OF THE NIGHT
41 FARID
42 A FURRY FACE ON THE WINDOWSILL
43 A DARK PLACE
44 FARID'S REPORT
45 TELLING LIES TO BASTA
46 WOKEN IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
47 ALONE
48 THE MAGPIE
49 BASTAS PRIDE AND DUSTFINGER'S CUNNING
50 NO LUCK FOR ELINOR
51 A NARROW ESCAPE
52 A FRAGILE LITTLE THING
53 THE RIGHT WORDS
54 FIRE
55 TREACHERY, LOOSE TALK, AND STUPIDITY
56 THE SHADOW
57 A DESERTED VILLAGE
58 HOMESICKNESS
59 GOING HOME
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A STRANGER IN THE NIGHT

The moon shone in the rocking horse's eye, and in the mouse's eye, too, when Tolly fetched it
out from under his pillow to see. The clock went tick-tock, and in the stillness he thought he
heard little bare feet running across the floor, then laughter and whispering, and a sound like
the pages of a big book being turned over.
L. M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe


Rain fell that night, a fine, whispering rain. Many years later, Meggie had only to close her eyes and she
could still hear it, like tiny fingers tapping on the windowpane. A dog barked somewhere in the
darkness, and however often she tossed and turned Meggie couldn't get to sleep.