The Two Destinies.
by Collins, Wilkie
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
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San Francisco, California, United States
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For a moment the horror of the discovery turned me faint and giddy. In another instant I was kneeling by her chair. My arm was round her - her head lay on my shoulder. She was past speaking, past crying out: she trembled silently, and that was all. I said nothing. No words passed my lips, no tears came to my relief. I held her to me; and she let me hold her. The child, devouring its bread-and-butter at a little round table, stared at us. The boy, on his knees before the grate, mending the fire, stared at us. And the slow minutes lagged on; and the buzzing of a fly in a corner was the only sound in the room.
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- Bookseller
- Alan Wofsy Fine Arts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15-3623
- Title
- The Two Destinies.
- Author
- Collins, Wilkie
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Harper & Bros., 1876.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Linguistics;
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