At Last
By Mary Virginia Terhune
14 Oct, 2019
Excerpt: ... in her countenance or demeanor. In the kitchen, a double allowance of toddy was served out, by their master's orders, to the men who had taken part in the interment on the hill-top. And, in their noisy talk over their potations, the vagr
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Excerpt: ... in her countenance or demeanor. In the kitchen, a double allowance of toddy was served out, by their master's orders, to the men who had taken part in the interment on the hill-top. And, in their noisy talk over their potations, the vagrant was scarcely mentioned. Only the pines, hoarser in their sough, by reason of the falling snow that clogged their boughs, chanted a requiem above the rough hillock at their feet. "Man cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name is covered with darkness!" Less