The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. 247 to Worcester and back to get it. If you could jest hide it under the others out of sight, seems to me it would do me a sight of good to feel it was there, you know." I motioned to him to lay it himself between her fingers. "O, I dars n't. I'm not fit, I'm not. She'd rether have you." But I told him that I knew she would be as pleased that he should give it to her himself as she was when he gave her the China pinks on that distant summer day. So the great awkward fellow bent down, as simply as a child, as tenderly as a woman, and left the flower in its place. " Se liked'em," he faltered; " maybe, if what she used to say is all so, she'11 like'em now. She liked'em better than she did machines, I've just got my carpet-sweeper through; I was thinking how pleased she'd be; I wanted to tell her. If I should go to the good place, - if ever I do go, it will be just her doin's, - I'11 tell her then, maybe, I -" He forgot that anybody was there, and, sobbing, hid his face in his great hands. So we are waiting for the morning when

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