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Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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On the Saturday morning the letter was set up on the mantel-board. could reconsider the matter. And the the smile was so feeble that the little afternoon she spent in torture oyer girl scolded him prettily for not being what she had done, yainly trying to properly pleased. He was too weak to comfort herself with the defence that attempt expostulation. And aU the she had written as, with the best sunny day through he seemed to sleep, thought she could luring to bear, her She came from time to time to look at
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She brought him a candle and lit it, for the daylight was fading. him, once with a bunch of honeysuckle,which she scattered over the bed, againwith the horrible two cups and a littlecoaxing prayer, which he never evennoticed, and yet again with the kittenat teatime to try to rouse him. But asit was all of no avail she sat beside himwith the kitten on her lap and turnedover the pages of the Greek Testament,pretending that she was taking greatcare of him and was profitably em-ployed the while. Later the farmer creaked up in hisnailed boots and looked at the man andsaid hush, leant against the opendoorway for awhile, chewing a straw,then nodded a smile at his little daugh-ter and creaked away down again. About nine the man roused himself,and his hand on the bed pointed to theletter. She tiptoed to fetch it and gaveit to him, then at his whispered requestbrought him a candle and lit it, for thedaylight was fading. She set it on thestool and wound up his watch (a thinghe had allowed her to

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