Responsibility: A Novel
James E. Agate
Paperback
(Forgotten Books, Jan. 19, 2018)
Excerpt from Responsibility: A NovelEngland, formalities, and release. I am unfit for further service, without scars to show, returnable to civil life at forty-nine and with liberty to wring out of the world whatever entertainment or what further bitterness it yet may hold. My chief feeling is that I must be good for effort yet, that life cannot be over. There is atonement to be made, an atonement non cloistral, giving scope for effort. I have little patience with those natural heartaches to which the most innocent ο¬esh is heir, the unmerited sufferings that are a part of normal inheritance. My sympathies are with the man who has only himself and not Providence to blame, with the well-meaning blackguard, the rascal who has found it easier to deceive the world than to silence the promptings of his better nature. It is twenty years since I sat under parson, but the worn phrases die hard. Jargon sticks like a burr.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.