Judith Paris: Large Print
by Hugh Walpole
2020-05-26 16:48:50
Judith Paris: Large Print
by Hugh Walpole
2020-05-26 16:48:50
The old woman and the new-born child were the only living things in the house. The old woman, Mrs. Henny, had finished her washing and laying-out of the bodies of the child's father and of the child's mother. She had done it alone because she had bee...
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The old woman and the new-born child were the only living things in the house. The old woman, Mrs. Henny, had finished her washing and laying-out of the bodies of the child's father and of the child's mother. She had done it alone because she had been afraid to leave the house with no one alive in it save the new-born child. Now she was exhausted and, in spite of her labour, fearfully chilled, for the snow, although it fell now more lightly, was piled high about the doors and windows as if, with its soft thick fingers, it wished to strangle the house.
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