This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...see or picture, we who have not lived through those bitter, dreary months. It is thus I see him, and shiver a bit--grim, drooping in his chair, staring and nodding through untold hours. And utter, despairing gloom sits with him, an arm about his neck. On this night, of all nights, I know that gloom sat with him, and an ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...see or picture, we who have not lived through those bitter, dreary months. It is thus I see him, and shiver a bit--grim, drooping in his chair, staring and nodding through untold hours. And utter, despairing gloom sits with him, an arm about his neck. On this night, of all nights, I know that gloom sat with him, and an exceedingly great weariness hung upon all his drooping body, for that struggle out in the dusk had tired more than words can tell. Not even Villon could tempt him to reading; not even the little faithful journal could make him take up his pen. It seemed to him, glooming there in his loneliness, that, across the path which had been given him to walk, a mountain rose, sheer and high and precipitous, barring thejway--a mountain which, perhaps, a better man might climb, or a worse circumvent. For himself he saw no passage. What was it Henry Carnardon had said? "I have sat at this table for hours... with a pistol before my hand, stating the question and arguing each side of it with all the skill I possess, hoping against hope that one day I might be able to argue down my scruple and end it all...." Tommy pulled open a drawer of the writing-table, and from it took the loaded pistol which he kept there--the revolver" which Jared had begged him to carry. He laid the weapon upon the Utter of papers before his hands and nodded to it gravely. "I do not think," he said, "that I have Carnardon's scruples in the matter of suicide. It seems to me that there are eases in which nothing else will avail, and it seems to me that my case is one of these. I am not a coward, I fancy "he spoke in a tone of half-questioning deprecation, as if he were quite open to argument or to denial, "but. in so far as I am able to judge, my...
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