For months past, she had felt that she was weakening, that the crescent wretchedness of five long years-an uninterrupted descent from level to level, on each of which the thorns of disillusion caught at, and tore from her, some shred of hope or self-respect-had done its work at last. Her courage and her faith, inherited, the one from the mental, the other from the moral, vigour of a rigid and uncompromising Puritan ancestry, were slipping from her.
- | Author: Guy Wetmore Carryl
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Jun 16, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 124 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 152397592X
- | ISBN-13: 9781523975921