Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches

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Ruth McEnery Stuart. Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches

Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches

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MORIAH'S MOURNING

AN OPTICAL DILEMMA

THE SECOND MRS. SLIMM

APOLLO BELVEDERE. A CHRISTMAS EPISODE OF THE PLANTATION

NEAREST OF KIN (ON THE PLANTATION)

THE DEACON'S MEDICINE

TWO GENTLEMEN OF LEISURE

THE REV. JORDAN WHITE'S THREE GLANCES

LADY. A MONOLOGUE OF THE COW-PEN

A PULPIT ORATOR

AN EASTER SYMBOL. A MONOLOGUE OF THE PLANTATION

CHRISTMAS AT THE TRIMBLES'

A MINOR CHORD

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Ruth McEnery Stuart

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The elder was a popular father, grandfather, uncle, husband, and Bible-class teacher to a band of devoted women of needle-work and hand-painting proclivities, and his writing-table was a favorite target for their patiently wrought love-missiles.

One of the strongest evidences of the old man's kindliness of nature was that it was only when he was wrought up to the point of desperation, as now, that he spoke his mind about the gewgaws which his soul despised.

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