[The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay]@TWC D-Link bookThe Rosary CHAPTER XIX 11/28
Was not this other lady a pleasant person ?" Garth laughed suddenly, bitterly; a laugh like a hard, sob.
"Oh, yes," he said, "she was quite a pleasant person." "'Rosemary for remembrance,'" quoted Dr.Rob.
"Then why should not Nurse Rosemary call up a pleasant remembrance? Also it seems to me to be a kind, sweet, womanly voice, which is something to be thankful for nowadays, when so many women talk, fit to scare the crows; cackle, cackle, cackle--like stones rattling in a tin canister." "But can't you understand, doctor," said Garth wearily, "that it is just the remembrance and the resemblance which, in my blindness, I cannot bear? I have nothing against her voice, Heaven knows! But I tell you, when I heard it first I thought it was--it was she--the other--come to me--here--and--" Garth's voice ceased suddenly. "The pleasant lady ?" suggested Dr.Rob.
"I see.
Well now, Mr.Dalmain, Sir Deryck said the best thing that could happen would be if you came to wish for visitors.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|