![]() ![]() You'd be right in surmising that I find all these flapping tent-monsters and worms in your feet and beautiful governesses slightly gauche. And the only thing that Ursula Monkton is scared of, the only thing that will get rid of this kind of a monster, are the formidable "hunger" birds… The malevolence stays and assumes the human form of the tall blonde Ursula Monkton, the narrator's evil live-in nanny, who wears a ragged grey and pink dress that also flaps. Later, the boy removes the worm but doesn't quite get it all out. She says it's common.") and the monster places a worm into the arch of the narrator's foot. In the ensuing struggle, the narrator lets go of Lettie's hand as she chants the binding spell (though these Hempstocks don't call them spells: "Gran doesn't hold with none of that. ![]() Out in the fields, they encounter the monster: "some kind of tent, as high as a country church, made of grey and pink canvas that flapped in the gusts of storm wind… a lopsided canvas structure aged by weather and ripped by time". ![]()
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