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Florence L. Barclay. Returned Empty
Returned Empty
Table of Contents
SCENE I. GLASS WITH CARE
SCENE II. THE UNEXPECTED WELCOME
SCENE III. THE EXPECTED GUEST
SCENE IV. THE PRISON BARS DISSOLVE
SCENE V “I HAVE WAITED SO LONG!”
SCENE VI “SUNSET AND EVENING STAR”
SCENE VII “AND AFTER THAT—THE DARK”
SCENE VIII. THE DAWN BREAKS
SCENE IX. THE WATCHER
SCENE X “WHEN THAT WHICH DREW FROM OUT THE BOUNDLESS DEEP—TURNS AGAIN HOME”
SCENE XI “MY LIFE FOR HIS!”
SCENE XII. THE DEEP WELL
SCENE XIII “NEVERTHELESS——”
SCENE XIV “NO SADNESS OF FAREWELL”
SCENE XV “THE SECRETS OF OUR HEARTS”
SCENE XVI “WHO WAS HE?”
SCENE XVII. IN THE PINE WOOD
SCENE XVIII. THE HOME SHE PLANNED
SCENE XIX. THE GREAT CHANCE
SCENE XX “COMING!”
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Florence L. Barclay
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Peering through area railings into the basement of London houses, he liked the stout cook who stood before a glowing kitchen range, toasting-fork in hand, flinging remarks over her portly print shoulder to the pretty young housemaid, perched on the kitchen table, swinging her feet and darning a stocking.
He loved the grey parrot with a naughty eye, no doubt banished from the drawing-room on account of its language, sidling up and down its perch, in the cage under the window. He felt sure it was making valuable additions to its vocabulary, what time the heat of the fire on one side and the flippant attitude of the pretty housemaid on the other, annoyed the stout cook.
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