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. 1887 Excerpt: ...the little French girl, thrown in my way while I was serving in barracks at Washington, had baffled every effort I had made to win her affection or her confidence, and had gone out of my life as the thistle-down flies on the wind. She had cost me many of those precious drops of the soul's blood which all such endeavor ...
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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. 1887 Excerpt: ...the little French girl, thrown in my way while I was serving in barracks at Washington, had baffled every effort I had made to win her affection or her confidence, and had gone out of my life as the thistle-down flies on the wind. She had cost me many of those precious drops of the soul's blood which all such endeavor drains; and in the laboratory of memory I had labelled them, "Worse than Wasted," and sadly wondered if I should do the same again for such another need, at just such hopeless expenditure, and had reminded myself that it was not good spiritual economy, and said that I would never repeat the experience, and known all the while that I should. Now here, a spirit saved, shining as the air of Heaven, " without spot or any such thing "--here, wiser in heavenly lore than I, longer with Him than I, nearer to Him than I, dearer to Him, perhaps, than I--here was Marie Sauve"e. "I do not know how to apologize," I said, struggling with my emotion, "for the way in which I spoke to you just now. Why should you not be here? Why, indeed? Why am I here? Why"--"Dear Miss Mary," cried the girl, interrupting me passionately, " but for you it might never have been as it is. Or never for ages--I cannot say. I might have been a ghost, bound yet to the hated ghost of the old life. It was your doing, at the first--down there--all those years ago. Miss Mary, you were the first person I ever loved. You did n't know it. I had no idea of telling you. But I did, I loved you. After you went away, I loved you; ever since then, I loved you. I said, I will be fit to love her before I die. And then I said, I will go where she is going, for I shall never get at her anywhere else. And when I entered this place--for I had...
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8vo, pp. 196 + adv. Tan cloth, stamped in brown and gilt. Hinges near tender, rear flyleaf mended, half-title missing, possibly ex-library, o/w VG. BAL 20917, Wright II, 2629. Ward (1844-1911) wrote numerous books and articles advocating woman's rights, suffrage, and dress reform. She was the daughter of author Elizabeth Wooster Phelps (1815-52), a novelist who died when her daughter was 8. She was heavily influenced by her mother, who described the dual nature of the life of women.
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8vo, pp. 196 + adv. Moderately worn pink cloth, a very good copy. BAL 20917, Wright II, 2629. This is BAL's first printing with 16pp of adv and a blank leaf, Page size: 615/16'4-7/16 in. Ward (1844-1911) wrote numerous books and articles advocating woman's rights, suffrage, and dress reform. She was the daughter of author Elizabeth Wooster Phelps (1815-52), a novelist who died when the novelst was 8. She was heavily influenced by her mother who described the dual nature of the life of women.
