The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. 231 where a faint, gray light struggled in, and opened the bosom of her dress.... There was silence between us for a long while after that; she went back to the sofa, and I took her hand and bowed my face over it, and so we sat. The leaves rustled out of doors. Faith, up stairs, was singing herself to sleep with a droning sound. "He talked of risking an operation," she said, at length, "but decided to-day that it was quite useless. I suppose I must give up and be sick now; I am feeling the reaction from having kept up so long. He thinks I shall not suffer a very great deal. He thinks he can relieve me, and that it may be soon over." "There is no chance?" "No chance." I took both of her hands, and cried out, I believe, as I did that first night when she spoke to me of Roy, -" Auntie, Auntie, Auntie!" and tried to think what I was doing, but only cried out the more. "Why, Mary! " she said, — "why, Mary!" and again, as before, she passed her soft hand to and fro across my hair, till by and by I began to think, as I had thought before, that I

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911.
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