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Frances Waldeaux

CHAPTER XX
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And you are older than I." "'After the busy day Comes the calm sleep of night,'" she quoted, with a sententious sigh.
"Calm and sleep do not appear to me to be the highest conditions of life.

No! I will not be set aside, even when I am dead, like a burned-out candle!" The indignant tears stood in her eyes.

"Why, even in that other world I shall not be a barren stock, thank God! I have given a family to mankind.

To watch a long line of your descendants at work, to see in them your own thoughts and your own soul reaching out, live powers through all eternity--I often think of it.

That will be--not calm nor sleep." Miss Vance touched Mrs.Waldeaux's arm affectionately.


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