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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: way?even as a pair of dove's wings. One could see that it had been cared for lovingly. My mood was become very gentle, and perhaps I saw her in a fashion quite unreal. I do not know. Certainly she did not now seem anything like the invertebrate subject of our boyish jokes. And those two rich white wings I fancied, in my mood of gentleness, finally, to be more beautiful than the radiant locks I remembered. Just above the bed was a head of Jane done in water-colors, ?and she was not at all Sixty Jane then, ?and with it, on the same medallion, was another one?a dark young man with a smooth face and somber, serious eyes. The shoulders of a clerical coat of the fashion of many years before showed, and a cross of plain gold something like mine. The hair of the portrait was so long as to curl a little at the ends, and there was a rich dark lock combed before each ear. I am looking at the portraits as I write. And the one with the brilliant hair seems smiling at me. I am glad even to fancy that. For you are to know that I lied for her?I, a minister. Yet I am not sorry; there is nothing to repent, for I am sure that God understands. WHEN DAWN BEGAN TO COME TO JANE We were quite alone, the crazy woman and I, in the cold and grime of the garret of a tenement. But therewas an unnamable sweetness in it?I could not quite tell why. Perhaps God had given me a little intelligence of what was to come. She did not wake till the dawn began to come; not in the windows, ?no dawn ever shone there, ?but in a faint flush far away. Perhaps I had slept a little myself. If it were so, then I must first have heard her voice in my sleep. It seemed so marvelous for melody that I did not at once credit it to her. I had not heard it on the other occasion when I had seen her. It said softly, yet wit
| ISBN-13 | 9780217877909 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217877907 |
| Weight | 0.47 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.32 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 136 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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