Inhaltsangabe
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. 1887. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. THE PASSING-BELL. N the shock and horror of being for the first time in her life brought thus face to face with death, the child had literally no power to stir hand or foot, but remained almost as rigid and inmovable as the silent form before her, which yet, to her excited fancy, did not seem to be silent, but to be saying in some terrible way, without need of words, "How will it be with you, when you lie here?" Shrimp, his whole body shaking, cowered at her feet, now and then directing an anxious look towards the bed, but in no way trying to attract Kitty's attention; and the child, frozen with horror, might have stood there for hours, unconscious of the lapse of time, unconscious of anything in the whole world, but the awful presence into which she had hurried so suddenly and so wholly un. prepared, had not, mercifully for her overwrought brain, an interruption occurred before the trance of paralysing terror had lasted more than ten minutes. Ten minutes is, however, under some circumstances a long time, and when a hushed footstep crossed the room, and Abel's voice in some surprise exclaimed softly, "Why, Kitty!" the child, trembling then from head to foot, could only cling to him and repeat his name over and over again, "Abel! Abel! Abel!" But with his very presence the cloud was lifting. "I didn't know it," Kitty whispered presently; "Abel, I came in here and didn't know it." "My poor Kitty!" a kind arm was thrown round her, and she was drawn near the bed while Abel turned the sheet down from the dead face. The sight of the familiar features, still and peaceful in all the peace of recent death, did Kitty good at once, and when her brother said quietly, "His was a long life, Kitty, and he has gone home to God," the horror passed away like a ...
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