We will find the same kind of image in the first chapter of the governess" story: "I had the view of a castle of romance, inhabited by a rosy sprite, such a place would somehow, for diversion of the young idea, take color out of story books and fairytales. ( ) No, it was a big, ugly, antique, but convenient house, embodying a few features of a building still older, half replaced and half utilized, in which I had the fancy of our being almost as lost as a handful of passengers in a great drifting ship. ... On the one hand, Douglas adds verisimilitude by giving more details about the characters ...

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