The Opposite House: A Novel — page 127: what you’re looking at

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122 Lhe Opposite Flouse. till he at last stood at the sharp turn from which there are only two paths. Either the way leads to that dark portal whose iron grating closes behind the criminal for life or it ends at the gulf whose farther shore is called ‘“ America,” a gulf so wide that ninety-nine out of every hundred sink ere they set foot on the land. Comicboolkk<s C@