A Dark Night's Work and Other Tales (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...Of a surety, sir, there's call enough for bravery in the service of God, and to show love to man, without quarrelling and fighting. "Thank you, gentlemen, for listening to me. Your words called up the thoughts of him, and my heart was full to speaking. But I must make up; I've to dig a grave for a little child, who is to be buried to-morrow morning, just when his playmates are trooping off to school." " But tell us of Letty; is she yet alive?" asked Jeremy. The old man shook his head, and struggled against a choking sigh. After a minute's pause he said "She died in less than two year at after that night. She was never like the same again. She would sit thinking, on Gilbert, I guessed: but I could not blame her. We had a boy, and we named it Gilbert Dawson Knipe; he that's stoker on the London railway. Our girl was carried off in teething; and Letty just quietly drooped, and died in less than a six week. They were buried here; so I came to be near them, and away from Lindal, a place I could never abide after Letty was gone." He turned to his work, and we, having rested sufiiciently, rose up, and came away. THE END. Prmkd by BALLANTYNE, HANsON 8: Co. Edinburgh and London. AND OTHER TALES BY MRS GASKELL LONDON SMITH, ELDER, & CO., I5 WATERLOO PLACE r890 CONTENTS..__, .--PAGE ROUND THE SOFA..-... 7 MY LADY LUDLOw....-14 AN ACCURSED RACE..-.. 194 THE DOOM OF THE GRIFFITHS... 210 HALF A LIFETIME AGO.-.-245 THE POOR CLARE..... 288 THE HALF-BROTHERS..... 341 THE WELL or PEN-MORFA.... 353 MR. HARRISON'S CONFESSIONS.... 375 ROUND THE SOFA. INTRODUCTION TO MY LADY LUDLOW AND OTHER STORIES. ONG ago I was placed by my parents under the medical treatment of a certain Mr. Dawson, a surgeon in Edinburgh, who had...