"Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches" by Ruth McEnery Stuart. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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Ruth McEnery Stuart. Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
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.
