The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. 23 nace fire. The right to mourn makes everything different. Then, as to mother, I was very young when she died, and father, though I loved him, was never to me what Roy has been. This luxury of grief, like all luxuries, is pleasurable. Though, as I was saying, it is only the shallow part of one's heart-I imagine that the deepest hearts have their shallows - which can be filled by it, still it brings a shallow relief Let it be confessed to this honest book, that, driven to it by desperation, I found in it a wretched sort of content. Being a little stronger now physically, I shall try to be a little braver; it will do no harm to try. So I seem to see that it was the content of poison, - salt-water poured between shipwrecked lips. At any rate, I mean to put the book away and lock it up. Roy used to say that he did not believe in journals. I begin to see why.

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