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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 A GLEAM THRO' THE CEDARS MR. BIDDULPH, as soon as he found himself in his room, lit his candles, and settled down to two hours of answering letters. Then came his long night prayers, at which he dozed and roused himself and dozed again, and repeated them three or four times till he was satisfied that he had done his best, and then with a weary sigh, and little sweetness of spirit, got him to bed. He would have been equally astonished and pained had he known how he had hurt his friend that day. Muriel, with a mind that would fain have rested, had too much experience to love the night. After the day's toils, worries, and misunderstandings, at length comes the hour of silence, solitude, darkness; and yet at times that is, to many of us, the worst of all. She had thrown open the lattice window, and, wrapped in a great white cloak, was sitting looking out at the darkness, her mind dwelling persistently on Mr. Biddulph's desertion, as she chose to call it. Very reserved people are seldom happy in their confidences. Their moments of expansion are too important, too much dwelt on; like misers, when they give at all they expect great results, results in proportion to the greatness of the effort on their own part. Muriel, shut up in a world of her own, idealised what human intercourse might be, if she could let down thebarriers to the right person. And Mr. Biddulph had won and kept that place in her mind for ten years. Some day I will tell it all to him, she had often said to herself, and now she had a special secret to tell him. For how perfectly had he once helped her. Ten years ago, a woman of only twenty, already broken-hearted, as she thought, struggling still to find some joy in youth and life, had had opened to her a vision of joy and love, forbidde...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217801218 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217801218 |
| Weight | 0.70 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 212 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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