. The book of months . AUGUST in ever so small a degree from the living andthus tend to keep alive the sting of death. Forin that the dead have once been intertwined withour ordinary workaday lives, it is altogether afalse sentiment which makes us separate themnow, if we believe at all, as I do most truly, thatthey still are about and around us. All thesame, it was with a certain surprise and shockthat I saw in August that the sign-board that thehouse was to let was taken down, and that afew days later a furniture van was drawn up atthe door. In fact, this very natural and veryproper event dis
. The book of months . AUGUST in ever so small a degree from the living andthus tend to keep alive the sting of death. Forin that the dead have once been intertwined withour ordinary workaday lives, it is altogether afalse sentiment which makes us separate themnow, if we believe at all, as I do most truly, thatthey still are about and around us. All thesame, it was with a certain surprise and shockthat I saw in August that the sign-board that thehouse was to let was taken down, and that afew days later a furniture van was drawn up atthe door. In fact, this very natural and veryproper event disturbed me to a degree which Iwas wholly unable to understand. It seemeddreadful, somehow, that others should be at homethere (it never occurred to me at the time thatit was highly unlikely that the house had stoodvacant for two years), so wholly was it conse-crated in my mind to those two. At the sametime I realized my utter unreasonableness aboutthe matter, and instead of trying to combat it175 mrn ^^^^:.K^r:. >>a,-# #--
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