Vein of Iron

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Ellen Glasgow. Vein of Iron

Vein of Iron

Table of Contents

PART I. TOWARD LIFE

PART II. THE SINGLE HEART

PART III. LIFE'S INTERLUDE

PART IV. GOD'S MOUNTAIN

PART V. THE DYING AGE

THE END

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Ellen Glasgow

Published by Good Press, 2022

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Stooping over the basket, he lifted the lid and drew out an oblong parcel wrapped in brown paper and neatly tied with a store string. 'I did the best I could, my child,' he repeated, as he put it into her hands. 'After the mortgage was settled, it took all I had left to buy coffee and sugar for your grandmother. She is old, and it's a deprivation for her to go without coffee.'

But she held the parcel tight, without untying the string or taking in a word that he said. Suddenly the whole world was swimming in bliss, the blue twilight, the dark afterglow, the far-off benevolent shape of God's Mountain. 'I'll undo it inside,' she whispered, catching her breath. 'I'll wait for mother and grandmother.'

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