Her Husband's Keeper
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ISBN13: 9781458952660
Paperback|9781458952660
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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: CHAPTER III. THE WIDOWER ALONE. If the gloom of David Fletcher's life was not sensibly increased by the absence of his daughters, who had evinced no regret at leaving him to his loneliness, it was not because he cared little for them, but rather that he had reached, while they were yet with him, a stage of mental despondency which it would have been scarcely possible to get beyond without danger to his reason. The truth was, poor David had had far too much time for thinking lately, for looking back upon the long dreary road he had ' travelled with such tired feet, and this involuntary exercise of memory had been a refined torture to him almost beyond his capacities for endurance. The outside world might picture him as rejoicing secretly and selfishly in his deliverance from the incubus that had so cruelly weighed down all his youth and manhood?and who could severely censure him if thus it had been but there was no rejoicing, as yet, at any rate, in David Fletcher's heart. He was feeling far too bitterly the utter failure that his whole life had been, for any emotions of even transitory or superficial gladness to find a door of entrance into his complaining spirit. If the woman who had so recently gone to her account had simply made him miserable, the retrospect now would have been comparatively easy to endure. A past sorrow, unmingled with self-reproach, may be very depressing at times; but inasmuch as it is past, the human mind naturally and instinctively endeavours to shake it off, and in most cases has no great difficulty in doing so. But David Fletcher was not free from self-reproach as regarded his deplorable married life. He could not lay his handupon his heart and call his Maker to witness that he had not shared with his wife the fatal apple of discord which...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458952660 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458952665 |
| Weight | 0.43 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.29 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 124 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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