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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. BREAKING THE COMMANDMENTS AND WHAT CAME OF IT. Several months had rolled by since the events recorded in the last chapter. Abijah was inconsolable. All that his brethren of the Church could do, backed by the earnest expostulations of the minister, failed to arouse him from the almost lethargic stupor into which he had fallen on the death of his wife. Somehow or other he had got it into his head that she would not have died if she had remained at home that terribly hot Sabbath morning. She had not been feeling well for weeks. Hard work, with considerable worry, had told on her never robust constitution. Her husband was by nature shiftless, and the weight of the family cares, as a consequence, fell on her. He was, however, kind and tenderhearted. He had pleaded with her that morning not to go to meeting, but she could not think of committing so grievous a sin. Then Abijah would dwell on the fact that the exercises that day had been longer than usual, and so it got into his muddled brain that the Church? ay, even the minister?was not altogether clear from blame in the matter of his irreparable loss. It worked upon him till he grew moody and taciturn towards his neighbors, who, as in duty bound, shook the head and tapped the forehead over the sad lapse of one who hitherto had walked without reproach. Not that Abijah absented himself from the sanctuary. He would as soon have thought of joining the wild Indians of the forest as being counted among the few in Woodside who, on one excuse or another, absented themselves from the Meet- ing-house. But his whole nature appeared to be so embittered as to transform him into another man. Yet he loved the two motherless children as he had never done when she was living. His love for the lost one centred itself now upon th...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217657174 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217657176 |
| Weight | 0.67 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.46 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 202 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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