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Foes

CHAPTER XXIII
13/19

I saved for it, denied for it, was faithful.

It came about and it's ashes in my mouth! Yet I took it as a trust, and was faithful.

What does the Bible say, 'Vanity of vanities'?
But I say that the world's made wrong." Glenfernie left him at last, wrinkled and shrunken and shriveled, cold on a summer day, plying himself with wine, a serving-man mending the fire upon the hearth.

Alexander went to Mrs.Alison's parlor.

He found her deep chair placed in the garden without, and she herself sitting there, a book in hand, but not read, her form very still, her eyes upon a shaft of light that was making vivid a row of flowers.


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