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The Curfew Tolls

The Curfew Tolls

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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ISBN10: 1519338449
ISBN13: 9781519338440
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 16 2015
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.09 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. . . . My friend the major's malady approaches its term-the last few days find him fearfully enfeebled. He knows that the end draws nigh; indeed he speaks of it often, with remarkable calmness. I had thought it might turn his mind toward religion, but while he has accepted the ministrations of his Church, I fear it is without the sincere repentance of a Christian. When the priest had left him, yesterday, he summoned me, remarking, Well, all that is over with, rather more in the tone of a man who has just reserved a place in a coach than one who will shortly stand before his Maker. It does no harm, he said, reflectively. And, after all, it might be true. Why not? and he chuckled in a way that repelled me. Then he asked me to read to him-not the Bible, as I had expected, but some verses of the poet Gray. He listened attentively, and when I came to the passage, Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, and its successor, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, he asked me to repeat them. When I had done so, he said, Yes, yes. That is true, very true. I did not think so in boyhood-I thought genius must force its own way. But your poet is right about it.

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