Beyond
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An excerpt: Making his way towards the park, he turned into Mount Street. There was the house still, though the street had been very different then--the house he had passed, up and down, up and down in the fog, like a ghost, that November afternoon, like a cast-out dog, in such awful, unutterable agony of mind, twenty-three years ago, when Gyp was born. And then to be told at the door--he, with no...
MoreAn excerpt: Making his way towards the park, he turned into Mount Street. There was the house still, though the street had been very different then--the house he had passed, up and down, up and down in the fog, like a ghost, that November afternoon, like a cast-out dog, in such awful, unutterable agony of mind, twenty-three years ago, when Gyp was born. And then to be told at the door--he, with no right to enter, he, loving as he believed man never loved woman--to be told at the door that SHE was dead--dead in bearing what he and she alone knew was their child! Up and down in the fog, hour after hour, knowing her time was upon her; and at last to be told that! Of all fates that befall man, surely the most awful is to love too much. Queer that his route should take him past the very house to-day, after this new bereavement! Accursed luck--that gout which had sent him to Wiesbaden, last September! Accursed luck that Gyp had ever set eyes on this fellow Fiorsen, with his fatal fiddle! Certainly not since Gyp had come to live with him, fifteen years ago, had he felt so forlorn and fit for nothing. To-morrow he would get back to Mildenham and see what hard riding would do. Without Gyp--to be without Gyp! A fiddler! A chap who had never been on a horse in his life! And with his crutch-handled cane he switched viciously at the air, as though carving a man in two.
Publisher | Bunny Books, Ink. |
Binding | Kindle Edition (87 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized
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# of Pages | N/A |
ISBN-10 | B004K6LZ9U |
Publication Date | 03/24/2010 |
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