ed, in all his deathly longitude, as with a galvanic shock.
"Dead! HE dead! Life itself!" And then after a moment and with a slight
rising inflexion: "You're free?"
"Free, cousin. Too sadly free. And now--NOW--with what use for freedom?"
He looked steadily into her eyes, dark in the heavy shadow of her musty
mourning-veil. "For me wear colours!"
In a moment more death had come, the doctor had silently attested it,
and she had burst into sobs.
We buried him in the little churchyard in which he had expressed the
wish to lie; beneath one of the blackest and widest of English yews and
the little tower than which none in all England has a softer and hoarier
grey. A year has passed; Miss Searle, I believe, has begun to wear
colours.
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Passionate Pilgrim, by Henry James
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A PASSIONATE PILGRIM ***
***** This file should be named 8080.txt or 8080.zip *****
This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.gutenberg.org/8/0/8/8080/
Produced by Eve Sobol
Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules,
set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to
copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to
protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project
Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and
research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
*** START: FULL LICENSE ***
THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE
PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK
To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free
distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work
|