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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: face toward home and family, drawn by a half-defined fear lest they get scattered, too. During Grandma's last years her sister Thankful came and lived with her?two feeble old women, united in infancy, separated throughout their long lives, reunited just before the end We children called her Aunt Unthankful: her presence added much to Grandma's burdens, but no murmur passed the patient lips; nor would she suffer criticism of the poor soul who had found refuge in her home and heart. As a girl I was keenly alive to the pathos of my greatgrandfather's life, and to the deferred, then all-but-accom- plished hope in Grandma's. My own mother's cherished hope of one day taking Grandma to her childhood home was also doomed to unfulfilment; and with a curious prescience I used to ask, Will the dearest hope that sleeps against my own heart meet a like rebuff? Had the tired, saddened woman found her father at the last, I wonder if his failing mind could have grasped the truth. Perhaps he would have turned away in bitter disappointment when they had tried to make him understand; unable to articulate, but thinking, That is not my baby Eunice that John Gear stole from me. Perhaps he died hoping, believing, that his little Eunice would still come back. As a child I remember being gathered into Grandma's arms, conscious of an infinite tenderness, inarticulate but encompassing. I used to look up into her pale, weary face and wonder why she had to work so hard. I loved to stroke her soft cheeks; was mystified by the wrinkled flesh that hung beneath her chin; and her poor hands with their enlarged joints and crooked fingers?it seemed as though they must hurt to be so bent; vainly I tried to straighten them. It was such a puzzle, too?the contrast between ageand youth as I saw and felt it ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217670814 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217670814 |
| Weight | 0.66 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 198 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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