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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900. Excerpt: ... RECOGNITION THE promised week came to an end. It was Saturday morning. Gerald's seven days at the Settlement were completed. He was free to go home again, to his Piccadilly flat and his club, and to the unstable society, propped up, as he had put it, by enforced order and by the work of the people who toil to make wealth and civilisation possible. Every week, every day, every hour in a man's life may be a turning-point. One knows not how the decision of any moment may affect the whole of his future life, --so long for him who works, so short for him who remembers. The turning-points, for the most part, are disregarded, we do not discern their importance till long after they are passed; we remember them when we find new burdens laid upon our shoulders. For most of us the days seem to pass like a winding stream, in what used to be called a champaign country, lingering among scenes which are always changing and always the same; there are the meadows beside the stream; there are the trees and the hedges, the rushes; there are the cattle and the silly sheep; there is the church with the churchyard; and always the stream, slowly, yet without pause, making its way to the ocean. For some the scenery changes; the country breaks down in ravines and dales; the stream leaps over waterfalls through foam and spray; it is a wild mountain torrent; it turns water-wheels; it lights up hanging woods; in beauty ever new, in force ever resistless, it works its impetuous course past church and churchyard into the silent ocean. This week changed one man's life. For on the last day, when he should have rejoiced at getting away from the humiliations of his new discoveries, away from the people upon whom his father had trampled, away from streets and houses which mocked him and acc..
| ISBN-13 | 9781150179013 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150179015 |
| Weight | 0.42 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 120 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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