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Trusia

By Davis Brinton

2019-06-18 16:22:22

Prompted by a kindly interest in his orderly's career and ambitions, he had asked the man as to his past in general and his future in particular. He was totally unprepared for the undammed flood of confidence which had burst from the lips of the habi ... Read more
Prompted by a kindly interest in his orderly's career and ambitions, he had asked the man as to his past in general and his future in particular. He was totally unprepared for the undammed flood of confidence which had burst from the lips of the habitually taciturn Carrick. The tattered rags of the fellow's humble past were spread before him in all their pathetic squalor. He saw, as though a living thing, the barren, inarticulate childhood. He heard, under compulsion, the tale of youth's indefinable longings, with the meagre story of a love which lacked not its own shabby tragedy. The delicacy of a gentleman, who had intruded where he had no right, had caused him to draw back with an apology; but the orderly had insisted on telling him. He could almost see the raw, quivering heart in Carrick's breast. Less

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File size286.222 KB
Print pages166
PublisherPublic Domain Book
Publication date2015-09-02
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1505583543
Davis Brighton(Author) Books: Trusia, Trusia: A Princess Of Krovitich Brighton B.Davis(Architect) Born:23 January 1862 Died:1952...

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