Excerpt from Noughts and Crosses: Stories Studies and Sketches It was not so much the little chap's look. But to the knot of his sea-kit there was tied a bunch of cottage-ficwers - sweet Williams, boy's love, love-lies-bleeding, a few common striped carna tions, and a rose or two - and the sight and smell of them in that frowsy 'bus were like tears on thirsty eyelids. We had ceased to pity what we were, but the heart is far withered that cannot pity what it has been; and it made us shudder to look on the young face set ...
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Excerpt from Noughts and Crosses: Stories Studies and Sketches It was not so much the little chap's look. But to the knot of his sea-kit there was tied a bunch of cottage-ficwers - sweet Williams, boy's love, love-lies-bleeding, a few common striped carna tions, and a rose or two - and the sight and smell of them in that frowsy 'bus were like tears on thirsty eyelids. We had ceased to pity what we were, but the heart is far withered that cannot pity what it has been; and it made us shudder to look on the young face set towards the road along which we had travelled so far. Only the minor actress dropped a tear; but she was used to expressing emotion, and half-way down the Strand the 'bus stopped and she left us. The woman with an incurable complaint touched me on the knee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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