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Theodore Dreiser. Free and Other Stories
Free and Other Stories
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FREE
McEWEN OF THE SHINING SLAVE MAKERS
NIGGER JEFF
THE LOST PHŒBE
THE SECOND CHOICE
A STORY OF STORIES
OLD ROGAUM AND HIS THERESA
WILL YOU WALK INTO MY PARLOR?
THE CRUISE OF THE "IDLEWILD"
MARRIED
WHEN THE OLD CENTURY WAS NEW
THE END
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Theodore Dreiser
Published by Good Press, 2021
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But the next morning, to his surprise and fear or comfort, as his moods varied, she was worse again; and then once more he reproached himself for his black thoughts. Was he not really killing her by what he thought? he asked himself--these constant changes in his mood? Did not his dark wishes have power? Was he not as good as a murderer in his way? Think, if he had always to feel from now on that he had killed her by wishing so! Would not that be dreadful--an awful thing really? Why was he this way? Could he not be human, kind?
When Doctor Storm came at nine-thirty, after a telephone call from the nurse, and looked grave and spoke of horses' blood as being better, thicker than human blood--not so easily bled out of the heart when injected as a serum--Haymaker was beside himself with self-reproaches and sad, disturbing fear. His dark, evil thoughts of last night and all these days had done this, he was sure. Was he really a murderer at heart, a dark criminal, plotting her death?--and for what? Why had he wished last night that she would die? Her case must be very desperate.
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