The Mother

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Duncan Norman. The Mother

BY PROXY

THE RIVER

A GARDEN OF LIES

THE CELEBRITY IN LOVE

AT MIDNIGHT

A MEETING BY CHANCE

RENUNCIATION

IN THE CURRENT

THE CHORISTER

ALIENATION

A CHILD'S PRAYER

MR. PODDLE'S FINALE

HIS MOTHER

NEARING THE SEA

THE LAST APPEAL

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Top floor rear of the Box Street tenement looked out upon the river. It was lifted high: the activities of the broad stream and of the motley world of the other shore went silently; the petty noises of life – the creak and puff and rumble of its labouring machinery, – straying upward from the fussy places below, were lost in the space between.

Within: a bed, a stove, a table – the gaunt framework of home. But the window overlooked the river; and the boy was now seven years old, unknowing, unquestioning, serenely obedient to the circumstances of his life: feeling no desire that wandered beyond the familiar presence of his mother – her voice and touch and brooding love.

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"Are you wise?"

"God help me!" she answered.

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