Fred S. Lincoln

Name: An Indiana Girl — Chapter 14
Author: Fred S. Lincoln

An Indiana Girl — Chapter 14 (1901)

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“An Indiana Girl — Chapter 14”, published in 1901, is a work by Fred S. Lincoln. It explores elements such as Kent, Landy and Brandt.

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 14 (1901)

“ When the little household returned they found that Brandt had gone, but they were not surprised, as they had anticipated that he would leave soon after collecting himself. They strove to be merry, or at least light-hearted, but Kent was filled with the glow of his new sensation, seeking seclusion at the first opportunity, while Landy told to his wife the occurrences of the evening visit, throwing her into the depressed state of pitying good-heartedness, magnifying for himself the sadness of it and swaying his wife with constant re-countings, making her suffer and suffering for her. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 14 (1901)

“ The world came back to Bennie finally. In it were the old funny-faced clock and frosted windows—and Kent, and he grew to be ill-content if the world—his world—was without these. The parson always listened to the child-life wonders with eagerness in their unfolding revelations, and, catching the key of Goblin Land, he went within, drawing forth an array of strange old things that were new even to him, and paraded them in different garbs, as fairies and beggars, princes and pages, and awful giant men, for the child. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 14 (1901)

“ Murray must tell someone that which his practiced eye caught at a glance, Kent seemed the one. He felt bitterness toward the physician at first; then an eager yearning, as if he hoped to say good-bye to the baby-boy's conscious mind before he was gone, took hold upon him, and he watched oh! so eagerly for the returning spark that would be the last.
An hour slipped by and the relentless clock in ungrateful return of Bennie's friendship gonged off the short respite. Martin had divined from the two men's anxiety the approaching end, and she sat apart from them rocking in grief-stricken tenseness. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 14 (1901)

“ If one day's suffering can give us a week of this knowledge, or even if a year of pain can give us the touch to feel an hour of delicious happiness, and feel it deep into our hearts, the pain is worth the bearing. May we all learn to recognize the goodness we may have at hand and enjoy its fullest blessings, as we should learn to bear our reverses, looking forward to the happiness that must come some time."
He was uttering the reasonings and dictates of his suffering self quite as though he were not before nearly two-score people, and like as if he might be musing in his study alone. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 14 (1901)

“ They proceeded then slowly, Landy uttering constantly rough words of re-assurance, and Brandt seemed to establish a better control over his fears that compassion and intimate familiarity with the patient had inspired. The house was apparently deserted, though in the quietness a lamp burned low, shedding a cheerful light through the study window. Kent and Mrs. George and the babies were all over at the church, and there were none left here now to distract the old man from his sorrow. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 14 (1901)

“ Yes, there is pain and there are pangs that come, no one mortal knows why—unless that out of it all we shall live to know the glorious goodness of being free from these, and also the goodness of living, knowing that we are happy, knowing that we are well off, and knowing what the good things are, because we can hold them against the bad and be joyous in the favorable comparison. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 14 (1901)

“ But these thoughts were not inappropriate, for they were words of his inner self, counseling the humanly human in the depths of other sufferers, and it drew them to him with poor resistance on their part, for men suffer much in silence, and reason much in silence, until they are awakened to find themselves but as simply constructed pieces in the machinery of events as are their neighbors, and then they surprisedly give vent to foolish and guilty confessions of private self-study, being aroused to the plan simple in human patterning. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 14 (1901)

“ Murray derived only the idea that Kent was contemplating the change, as men had often done before in his presence, but the good man missed entirely the trend of Kent's thought as he stood repeating to himself despondently the words, "Too late," following them into the pathetic hopelessness they conveyed with all the abandonment of self-censure.
Virgie was haunted even into the soothing of Mrs. ”

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