The Plain Path (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Plain Path

I have seen death I I have seen death I the other said brokenly, shuddering down among the pillows. Ach! To be like that!

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Excerpt from The Plain Path

Emily had already knocked without answer. To be sure, it had been a soft knock, as Emily's knocks always were; but it had been the signal agreed upon - one tap and then two. As she waited, listening, the chapel-bell struck six, vibrantly near. That decided her. It was getting late. The thought of the automobile frightened her into a second knock, almost peremptory. What could be the matter! No answer. With quick decision, she opened the door a crack and looked in. The lamp was unlighted, the room unoccupied, - no one on the couch, no one at the big desk with its white litter of papers, no one at the long centre-table darkened with books. A fern, the delicate lines of which swayed from a stand in the window, seemed the only living thing. A gust of wind, spiced with burning leaves, rustled the papers on the desk and blew cold on Emily's cheek. She opened the door wider and stepped in. There was frost in that air and the fern was choice. When the wind had blown the door to behind her, she at last became aware of a girl's figure at the window, against the gray of the twilight.

"Margot! You?" she cried. "Are you ill?

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

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.