Between the Dark and the Daylight
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781443235037
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Excerpt: ...throw you away--at least, not to-night. I want to think." It was a way of saying she wished him to go, and he had no desire to stay. He asked if he might come again, and she said, "Oh yes." "To-morrow?" "Not to-morrow, perhaps. When I send. Was it young Doctor Enderby?" They had rather a sad, dry parting; and when her door closed upon him he felt that it had shut him out forever. His shame and his defeat were so great that he did not think of his eidolons, and they did not come to trouble him. He woke in the morning, asking himself, bitterly, if he were cured already. His humiliation was such that he closed his eyes to the light, and wished he might never again open them to it. The question that Mrs. Yarrow had to ask Dr. Enderby was not the question he had instantly forecast for her when she put aside her veil in his office and told him who she was. She did not seem anxious to be assured of Alford's mental condition, or as to any risks in marrying him. Her inquiry was much more psychological; it was almost impersonal, and yet Dr. Enderby thought she looked as if she had been crying. She had a difficulty in formulating her question, and when it came it was almost a speculation. "Women," she said, a little hoarsely, "have no right, I suppose, to expect the ideal in life. The best they can do seems to be to make the real look like it." Dr. Enderby reflected. "Well, yes. But I don't know that I ever put it to myself in just those terms." Then she remarked, as if that were the next thing: "You've known Mr. Alford a long time." "We were at school together, and we shared the same rooms in Harvard." "He is very sincere," she added, as if this were relevant. "He's a man who likes to have a little worse than the worst known about him. One might say he was excessively sincere." Enderby divined that Alford had...
| ISBN-13 | 9781443235037 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1443235032 |
| Weight | 0.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.21 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 88 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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