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Title: The Moon Rock
Author: Arthur J. Rees
Release Date: June 3, 2004 [eBook #12509]
Language: English
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THE MOON ROCK
By
ARTHUR J. REES
1922



"There is no help for all these things are so,
And all the world is bitter as a tear,
And how these things are, though ye strove to show,
_She would not know._"
--Swinburne



CHAPTER I

The voice of the clergyman intoned the last sad hope of humanity, the
final prayer was said, and the mourners turned away, leaving Mrs. Turold
to take her rest in a bleak Cornish churchyard among strangers, far from
the place of her birth and kindred.
The fact would not have troubled her if she had known. In life she had
been a nonentity; in death she was not less. At least she could now mix
with her betters without reproach, free (in the all-enveloping silence)
from the fear of betraying her humble origin.
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