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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1860 Original Publisher: D. Appleton and Co. Subjects: Education / Special Education / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Family Life Juvenile Fiction / Family / Siblings Literary Collections / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustratio...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1860 Original Publisher: D. Appleton and Co. Subjects: Education / Special Education / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Family Life Juvenile Fiction / Family / Siblings Literary Collections / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: His conscience could not give quite such an account as did that of Job ! But he did not like recollecting his own errors better than any of us do, and liked much more to feel himself very hardly used, and greatly to be pitied. Thereupon he opened his lips to call to his mother, but that old thought about patience returned on him, he had mercy on her regular breathing, though it made him quite envious to hear it, and he said to himself, that he would let her alone, at least till the next time the clock struck. It would be three o'clock next time. Oh, dear! would the night never be over ? How often such a round of weary thoughts came again and again can hardly be counted, but, at any rate, poor Alfred was exercising one act of forbearance, and that was so much gain. At last he found, by the increasing light showing him the shapes of all the pictures, that he must have had a short sleep which had made him miss the clock, and he felt a good deal injured thereby. However, Mrs. King was too good a nurse not to be awakened by his first movement, and she came to him, gave him some cold tea, and settled his pillow so as to make him more comfortable; and when he begged her to let in a little more air, she went to open the window, and relieve the closeness of the little room. She had learnt while living with Lady Jane that night air is not so dangerous as some people fancy, and it ...
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