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A Puritan Bohemia. Margaret Pollock Sherwood
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isbn 4064066064822
Автор произведения Margaret Pollock Sherwood
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She had grown almost content, living in the constant presence of the dead. Now a sudden change of work disturbed her. She was asked to leave her books, and to do district visiting in the slums. The swarming people irritated her. The sights and sounds made her ill. She could not really care, she said to herself, about the wretched people she was trying to serve. Yet the thought of them troubled her dreams. At night their faces followed her on her journey to the past. Soiled fingers seemed to clutch her gown as she walked the old, familiar ways.
She went on in a maze. That old expectation of finding on the other side of each shut door the face she loved went with her to the slums. But the open doors revealed only dirt, misery, sin. Again and again the rebellious cry arose. The soul she loved had heaven; and she?—the blank brick walls, the long, muddy walks, the loathsome faces.
One wicked old woman with a passion for drink, two Italians out of work, and a family of motherless children were given to her care.
One day in late October Mrs. Kent made her usual round of visits. It was her birthday. She found that the old woman had turned her daughter out of doors.
The visitor walked slowly away, looking back toward the window of the basement room.
"My birthday gift," she said, "is a share in another's sin."
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