Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 454
t be true, until at length it was use-less to hope against hope, and the strong manbowed down his broken heart, as he said, O God !it is true. And what of Ethel ? It was her first loss, poor child, and her first con-tact with a great appalling sorrow. She was per-plexed and stunned with the… … his eyes staring vacantly, or with head buried inhis trembling hands, through which the tears wouldtrickle, a man might have been seen haunting theneighborhood of Blackrock. It was Mr. Morton,so altered that those who knew him best almostfailed to recognize in him the same man. Let us not inquire…
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