Ruby, or a Heart of Gold (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

A. Lila Riley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1333350651 ISBN 13: 9781333350659

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Ruby, or a Heart of Gold

It was the habit, though, the strong habit of childhood, that made Dr. Matthews, now a gray-haired man of fifty, listen for the text and remember it. And so among the masses he passed for a good listener. Not that he was a hypocrite and sought to make false impressions, but he was always ready with the text.

To-day, before getting deep into specula tions, he caught sight of a little bright curly head just above the back of Mr. Vane's pew. It was not an unfamiliar head to Dr. Matthews, and had always been interesting to him from the time it had lain in the cradle. Many a time he had eased it as it tossed, feverish, upon the pillow, and many a time had he slapped Ruby on the back and called him a great fellow when he swal lowed his medicine, almost without making a face. The intent, listening attitude of the head attracted him, and, like Mabel and Marian, he looked and listened to know what it was.

The doctor was a man of deep concentra tion, and. When he fixed his thoughts upon the sermon, was as completely lost to bacilli as formerly he had been to the sound of Dr. Caruthers' voice. He seemed to hear another voice, familiar yet unta miliar, speaking away down within him, and it was as if a strong, strange light flashed all along his past and he saw him self, his true self, from the time that he stood at the Sunday dinner table, trembling. Awaiting his trial, through the years of youth to frosted middle age. He seemed to see down within himself, deep down where the voice sounded, and he knew for the first time how tremendous, how fearful, was the gap between himself and this child. When Dr. Caruthers closed the book and raised his hand for the prayer, Dr. Matthews bowed his head and covered his face.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1333350651
• ISBN 13: 9781333350659
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100