Dramatic Stories [by T J Arnold]
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217204477
Paperback|9780217204477
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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: ALBERIG THE GODLESS, Murder most foul, as in the beat it is, But this moat foul, strange, and unnatural. Shaketpearf. ' Want and death ?and damnation to boot ?aye?one mishap over another?so goes it in this cursed world.?Couldn't the, foolish brat, keep away from the water Well? there's one mouth the less to feed.'?(A father was speaking of his child, and was answered by the mother, with Hush Alberic in a tone which even fear and trembling could not make inaudible?' I say there is?one belly the less to fill? and that's some ease in any case.?What fordost sit there, woman, weeping and whining at this rate will that bring the boy to life again ? or canst thou coin thy tears to help us? be still ' The above consolatory speech, was addressed by Alberic the Godless, (for by that surname he was generally known)?a tall, bulky, brawny man?sunken-cheeked, grey-eyed?and (but for a small portion of short-curled grizzed hair at the back and sides) bald headed, who, his arms knit over his chest, and his brow bent over them, was pacing up and down his hall, -'?to his wife Bertha, a woman, seemingly much younger than he, and of singular softness of form and face? though her cheek was quite tintless?and her blue eye all but quite rayless?who sat, indeed weeping bitterly, beside the half-dying blaze of a few logs, that very insufficiently occupied the spacious hearth, whereon they had been burning.? Alberic, who had stopped his stalking to and fro a moment, during the more personal part of his words, which he addressed to Bertha; took another stride at the end of them?and the next he took increased in swiftness?and the next, on that. There was stillness, save the sound of his tread?and utter silence. Mishaps of one kind or another had, for some time past, been heavily pr...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217204477 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217204473 |
| Weight | 0.50 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 148 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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