Opening line:
It was the hour of the night when there be none stirring save churchyard ghosts – when all doors are closed except the gates of graves and all eyes shut but the eyes of wicked men.
The Devil’s Wager by William Makepeace Thackeray
September 6, 2009 at 12:29 pm (fiction, Opening lines, William Makepeace Thackeray)
17 Days in December 