Neighbors Wives
J. T. Trowbridge
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(Forgotten Books, Sept. 17, 2017)
Excerpt from Neighbors WivesIt was three years smee that dark day in autumn and now just such another dark day in the fall of the year was drawing to a close and Abel's foster-sister, having set the supper-table, took her favorite place at the win dow to watch for his coming. And there, sitting in the cheerful room, which would soon be made more cheerful by his presence remembering the sad day of the fu neral, so like this day thinking of all God's mercies to her, before and since, - to her, a poor orphan, so nu worthy such a home and such a brother looking across the gloomy common, whose very bleakness enhanced her sense of life-warm comfort in house and heart, she saw, through thick tears of happiness, which magnified him into a glimmering seraph, with irregular, shining wings, her more than brother, returning.Across the brown' common, under the wild elm boughs swinging in the wind, he came rapidly walking. He stopped to leave some tools he carried at the shop, and that gave the little housekeeper time to get the tea and toast on the table. Then She drew up the invalid's chair, beat the cushion, and helped the invalid to her seat,-for this was another important item of Abel's inheritance which we have neglected to mention, namely, a paralytic mother. She was a cheerful old Christian, with the most benignant of double chins, in the full pos session of her mental faculties, but physically shattered.She had suffered two or three strokes, the last of which had produced a singular effect upon her organs of speech.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.