The Altar of the Dead - Henry Jr. James - Books - 1st World Library - Literary Society - 9781421809465 - February 20, 2006
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The Altar of the Dead

Henry Jr. James

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The Altar of the Dead

He had a mortal dislike, poor Stransom, to lean anniversaries, and loved them still less when they made a pretence of a figure. Celebrations and suppre-ssions were equally painful to him, and but one of the former found a place in his life. He had kept each year in his own fashion the date of Mary Antrim's death. It would be more to the point perhaps to say that this occasion kept HIM: it kept him at least effectually from doing anything else. It took hold of him again and again with a hand of which time had softened but never loosened the touch. He waked to his feast of memory as consciously as he would have waked to his marriage-morn. Marriage had had of old but too little to say to the matter: for the girl who was to have been his bride there had been no bridal embrace. She had died of a malignant fever after the wedding-day had been fixed, and he had lost before fairly tasting it an affection that promised to fill his life to the brim. Of that benediction, however, it would have been false to say this life could really be emptied: it was still ruled by a pale ghost, still ordered by a sovereign presence.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released February 20, 2006
ISBN13 9781421809465
Publishers 1st World Library - Literary Society
Pages 108
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 10 mm   ·   272 g
Language English  
Contributor 1stworld Library

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