Name: Lovers' Saint Ruth's, and Three Other Tales
Author: Louise Imogen Guiney
ISBN: 978-1331556619

Lovers' Saint Ruth's, and Three Other Tales

By Louise Imogen Guiney 23 Feb, 2021

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Excerpt from Lovers' Saint Ruth's: And Three Other Tales Fire of the Wessex sun. It is possible that the actual incident had come to Mr. Hardy' 3 notice also, and with a keen and pitiful interest for so expert a student of human nature. A curious circumstance in his relation ofit 13 that the elder child, in order that there may be more room in a hard world for the persons he loves, dis poses not only of himself, but presumably of the younger child as well; and in the original version of my story Hughey jumped into the river with his sister Nora ln his arms. But a friend of mine, Who read the manuscript in 1894, a writer of great insight whose opinion I value 1n the extreme, so wrought with me to change the cruel ending, that I did so then and there, after some argument, and sent the boy of long, long thoughts uncompanied to his fate. The point of all this is, of course, that I now perceive my small invention had dared, uncon sciously, to keep yet closer pace than would appear with Mr. Hardy's; for the suicide of real life was the suicide of one child alone. Less

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