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The Lifted Bandage - Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
The Lifted Bandage
EAN 8596547364344
DigiCat, 2022
Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info
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Author of The Perfect Tribute,
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NEW YORK
Charles Scribner's Sons
1910
THE LIFTED BANDAGE
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The man let himself into his front door and, staggering lightly, like a drunken man, as he closed it, walked to the hall table, and mechanically laid down his hat, but still wearing his overcoat turned and went into his library, and dropped on the edge of a divan and stared out through the leaded panes of glass across the room facing him. The grayish skin of his face seemed to fall in diagonal furrows, from the eyes, from the nose, from the mouth. He sat, still to his finger-tips, staring.
He was sitting so when a servant slipped in and stood motionless a minute, and went to the wide window where the west light glared through leafless branches outside, and drew the shades lower, and went to the fireplace and touched a match. Wood caught and crackled and a cheerful orange flame flew noisily up the chimney, but the man sitting on the divan did not notice. The butler waited a moment, watching, hesitating, and then:
Have you had lunch, sir?
he asked in a tentative, gentle voice.
The staring eyes moved with an effort and rested on the servant's face. Lunch?
he repeated, apparently trying to focus on the meaning of the word. Lunch? I don't know, Miller. But don't bring anything.
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