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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
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protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
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Joy ? Joy! And he did not understand why she in her turn kept
calling, " Martha ? Martha ? come quick ? come quick!" He knew best
that she suddenly stopped running, and turned and waited for him,
and that as he fell forward she caught him in her arms and began to
drag him toward a bright light. It was a most vivid hallucination.
And when he woke in his bed, so warm and all, and Martha bending
over him, the first thing he told her ? smiling sleepily ? was that
he had mistaken her for Miss Jocelyn Grey. "It was the realest sort
of an hallucination," he said, "she caught me as I was falling ?
and of course she was you." She suddenly stopped running, and
turned and waited for him. " How do you feel, Deary ? We ? I had a
devil of a time with ye." But the Poor Boy's mind was still upon
the vision of Miss Grey. "I saw her," he said, "and there was a
look in her eyes that told me she 'd never ? never believed I 'd
done it. ... And I was so glad, I tried to run to her for comfort,
and all the time she was you. It was all so real ? so real. It was
a lot realer than some things that really did happen to me
yesterday ? yesterday morning, before I began to get snow-foolish."
" Twas the day before yesterday ye came home," said Martha. "And
all yesterday ye raved like a lunatic until night, when ye fell
asleep, and I knew that all was well." "Have you sat up with me all
the time?" "Ye forget I have an old female to help me. We took
turns." "You must thank her for me, Martha." "I'll do that." "Tell
her I am grateful to her, and I think we should give her quite a
lot of money, don't you?" THE Poor Boy could not get Miss Jocelyn
Grey out of his head, nor that look which she had had of belief in
him. The episode was a rejuvenation, and there were days w...
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