Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1908 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. The Wife. PRINGTIME again was developing all Glendale, and Bernice was down at the gate swinging her hat idly in her hand, the soft breeze blowing the dark hair from her forehead. Her walk had brought a glow to her cheek; an added lustre to her eyes, and deepest joy to her heart. She stood for a moment conscious only that she was young and that it is good to live. In her heart, beating so joyously in harmony with the opening buds and the glad, new things around her, there was little of sorrow or of care. A few hours before Mrs. Brookman had called to see her invalid mother. She and Bernice had come down to the street and turned into the lane. Side by side, the two had gone slowly on toward the old homestead, the mother talking of her son in the far away city, the girl listening eagerly. Only from Mrs. Brookman's lips from time to time had she heard of him in these long two years. "How long it seemed since he left me! He is in the city now, and has gone into manhood," Mrs. Brookman was saying, and then grew silent as they came within sight of the house at the end of the lane. Perhaps she was thinking of the day a handsome, dark-eyed man brought her to his home, or of a watery grave somewhere in the river. And Bernice, looking down at the little woman at her side, thought how beautiful she was, despite the deep lines upon her face and how lonely she must be. Ah, indeed, she was lonely. Bernice suddenly remembered she had no one but Jules. She was recalling words she had heard scarce an hour before from the gentle lips; the words which had brought perfect joy to her heart. Then suddenly other words which before had fallen upon unheeding ears were recalled, chilling her heart, as the slow stroke of church bells, ringing a death knell, falls upon a ...
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