IN THE CHRISTMAS FIRELIGHT
IT was the last night we were to spend together for two years. I would not look beyond those years and face the possibility of our never sitting together-Doris and I-in the Christmas firelight, as we were sitting now. I knew that the arrangement for our separation had been wisely and tenderly made f...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | The Argosy : a magazine of tales, travels, essays, and poems travels, essays, and poems, 1872-01, Vol.13, p.68-78 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | IT was the last night we were to spend together for two years. I would not look beyond those years and face the possibility of our never sitting together-Doris and I-in the Christmas firelight, as we were sitting now. I knew that the arrangement for our separation had been wisely and tenderly made for her sake; but that knowledge did not lessen the utter loneliness which weighed down my heart already, and would fill it to overflowing when I should look vainly in the silent rooms for the face which had brightened them for seventeen years. |
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| ISSN: | 2043-1295 |