Fred S. Lincoln

Name: An Indiana Girl — Chapter 19
Author: Fred S. Lincoln

An Indiana Girl — Chapter 19 (1901)

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“An Indiana Girl — Chapter 19”, published in 1901, is a work by Fred S. Lincoln. It explores elements such as Ashville, Virgie and Kent.

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 19 (1901)

“ As Ashville became more puzzled Kent came to understand. Intuitively he gathered from the things he heard that she was suffering, not as the world is used to sorrow, but quite alone. Hers was a living coal burning within, away from all the balm of sympathy or of love. No words or caress could reach her grief and assuage because she could not reach it herself. It lay too deep, and, if it were not yet evident in her face, it was none the less there. Kent felt that the time must come when her strength would yield. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 19 (1901)

“ It is of you first—you always—that not only myself, but all Ashville is thinking, and for our regard we are receiving the cultivated ugliness of a once beautiful mind. Is it unreasonable of your people—your people and mine—to expect now, when sorrow has come to you, that they may share it? In the old days, when there was naught but sunshine for you, the darkness of sadness came to them from time to time in their turns, shutting out all of the gold and blue of the heavens. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 19 (1901)

“ Kent saw instantly that the flood-gates of her long-restrained grief were breaking, and he held to his untrue statement with fixed resolve. Looking full in her eyes he echoed her words impressively. "Just that," he said, and then went on, while she lowered her head again and began to cry softly.
"The love that they have given you merits a better return than the mean one you have given, Virgie. You have been cruel to their kindnesses, ugly to their sympathy and hateful to their love. Think! think—not as you have been thinking—of yourself alone, but of them and yourself! ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 19 (1901)

“ I am merely the agent of your friends and mine, seeking to influence you to receive their well-meant kindnesses. All Ashville is grieving for you to know that you are suffering, and suffering alone, and you will not let them show their love. You will not accept their sympathy or let them lighten your burden. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 19 (1901)

“ Ashville spent less than a day under the shock of its loss. Virgie and Virgie's future became the whole topic of conversation ere another sun had set, and the consideration shown in every man's or woman's desire to do something for her was the greatest evidence of their love. As the days went by, and no change was made, each household became more hopeful of its chances to secure her. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 19 (1901)

“ To-day, yesterday—for many days and weeks you have been bearing a sorrow that is changing you. Your friends suffer for you, but they cannot suffer with you because you will not let them. Think of what their tender love for you means to them. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 19 (1901)

“ Her tears were as salt upon his open wounds, and he writhed inwardly under their smarting; and yet he bore the pain as stoically as she had earlier borne her own self-inflicted bitterness, and would not yield himself for his own relief because her outburst must result beneficially for her. He sacrificed her for her ultimate good. He sacrificed himself for—he knew not what. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 19 (1901)

“ And then you must humble your head at their very feet, for you have proven yourself unworthy, utterly unworthy. In this you have indeed grievously sinned. For shame, Virgie; for shame! You should bury your face and weep for a deeper sin than ever you were permitted to know. ”

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