Emmett Lawler (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Tully, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331357829 ISBN 13: 9781331357827

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Emmett Lawler

She lay now, as a worn-out woman when all the house is still. There was a haunting beauty about her face. Her cheeks, which all the ills Of life had not robbed Of their color, were now the shade Of pink sea Shells. Her eyes were partly open, as if she wanted to look once more at her ship-wrecked children. Her hair had been the pride Of the countryside. It reached far below her knees; so long it was. It was now brushed back from her high, white forehead. By the light Of the kerosene lamp, the clustering ringlets looked like a mass of dull red rubies. The valiant woman had given her life to usher into the world - a little dead baby.

She had never believed that poor people should bring large families into the world. And now, like many a sol dier, with face upturned to the Sky, she had given her life in a battle the idea Of which she felt was wrong.

Her husband, however, felt that God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. He was quite unmindful Of the fact that if the lamb had not been shorn there would have been no need Of tempering the wind. But that was all Over now. The dreary rain fell steadily on the roof and windows Of the cabin.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Emmett Lawler

Lord, give to men who are old and rougher,
The things that little children suffer,
And let keep bright and undenled,
The young years of a little child.

- Masefield.

The First Episode

The child had arrived a month too soon. The doctor had arrived an hour too late. Emmett Lawler was six years old when this episode occurred. There was a commotion in a log cabin home in Ohio. During the first hour of the first of May his mother had closed her eyes upon a world from which the fairies of her girlhood had long since vanished. It had been her strength that kept the family ship from sinking in the sea of life.

Students of genealogy should pause here just a moment. Here was a dead eagle, born for the mountains, whose clipped wings had forced her to walk the mud roads of Ohio. From somewhere out of the long ago she had inherited a beautiful emotional nature. She had but scant education, and though her mind was powerful, it was ever and always a dreaming mind. In the midst of heart breaking realities she lived in a dream world of which John Keats was king.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331357829
• ISBN 13: 9781331357827
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 323