Life ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1874 - 208 pages |
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Page 14
... once been so soft , so shapely , so white , so bountiful , SO " full of all blessed conditions , " hard as a stone , a centre of horrid pain , making that pale face with its gray , lucid , reasonable eyes , and its sweet resolved mouth ...
... once been so soft , so shapely , so white , so bountiful , SO " full of all blessed conditions , " hard as a stone , a centre of horrid pain , making that pale face with its gray , lucid , reasonable eyes , and its sweet resolved mouth ...
Page 17
... once begun ; it was necessarily slow ; and chloroform one of God's best gifts to his suffering children was then unknown . The surgeon did his work . The pale face showed its pain , but was still and silent . Rab's soul was working ...
... once begun ; it was necessarily slow ; and chloroform one of God's best gifts to his suffering children was then unknown . The surgeon did his work . The pale face showed its pain , but was still and silent . Rab's soul was working ...
Page 21
... once more they were together , and she had her ain wee Mysie in her bosom . This was the close . She sank rapidly : the delirium left her ; but , as she whispered , she was " clean silly " : it was the lightning before the final ...
... once more they were together , and she had her ain wee Mysie in her bosom . This was the close . She sank rapidly : the delirium left her ; but , as she whispered , she was " clean silly " : it was the lightning before the final ...
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... it . The grave was not difficult to reopen . A fresh fall of snow had again made all things white and smooth ; Rab once more looked on , and slunk home to the stable . And what of Rab ? I asked for him next 24 LITTLE CLASSICS .
... it . The grave was not difficult to reopen . A fresh fall of snow had again made all things white and smooth ; Rab once more looked on , and slunk home to the stable . And what of Rab ? I asked for him next 24 LITTLE CLASSICS .
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... once , but not now ; though he thought he could navigate a ship . Only let him get his family together again , and he would try to do something ashore . - yes , he would No car had yet come in sight , and so the contributor suggested ...
... once , but not now ; though he thought he could navigate a ship . Only let him get his family together again , and he would try to do something ashore . - yes , he would No car had yet come in sight , and so the contributor suggested ...
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