The Wheels of Time
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By Florence Louisa Barclay 28 Jun, 2019
Sometimes the desire to share the interest of this ever-varying daily work with another gripped him in the throes of its human necessity. When his deep, penetrating eyes had been long bent upon the shifting, shuffling mind of a patient, at last pierc ... Read more
Sometimes the desire to share the interest of this ever-varying daily work with another gripped him in the throes of its human necessity. When his deep, penetrating eyes had been long bent upon the shifting, shuffling mind of a patient, at last piercing with tender mercilessness to the very core of that mind's malady; when his quick brain had grasped the case in all its bearings, and his magnificent will-power had compelled the shaken soul to see things as he saw them, to believe things, as he believed them, to face the future as the future alone, could rightly be faced; when his inspiring enthusiasm and belief in God and life and human nature had set that mental cripple on his feet or loosed the bands which had bound some poor "daughter of Abraham,—lo, these eighteen years"; when, conducted by Stoddart's mechanical "Step this way," they passed out from his consulting-room to tread with new hopes the path of a new life, he would stride to his window, squaring his shoulders, and taking in a deep breath of fresh air, he would say: "God, what a victory! I must tell Flower. Less
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  • 2018-10-27
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Born in Limpsfield, Surrey, The United Kingdom December 02, 1862 died March 10, 1921 GenreLiterature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance edit data She was born Florence Louisa Charlesworth in L...
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