Inglenook, The (1907) . WLY BUT CROWNED:THE OUTCAST A St(D>Ty h>y S^die Brailles Ho^siia^If— DOOo— ac. Chapter VI.—A Page from the Life of Mrs. Chester. T was a year before the opening of our story. I In the nursery of a cosy home a sorrowful man and woman knelt. The dim light of one solitary lamp but half revealed the faces of theoccupants and made fantastic shadows dart and leapupon the wall. The hour was midnight, the homewas Shady Brook, the man and woman were Mrs. Chester. Without that chamber deathly stillness reigned. Allwas as still within, save for the plaintive wails whi
Inglenook, The (1907) . WLY BUT CROWNED:THE OUTCAST A St(D>Ty h>y S^die Brailles Ho^siia^If— DOOo— ac. Chapter VI.—A Page from the Life of Mrs. Chester. T was a year before the opening of our story. I In the nursery of a cosy home a sorrowful man and woman knelt. The dim light of one solitary lamp but half revealed the faces of theoccupants and made fantastic shadows dart and leapupon the wall. The hour was midnight, the homewas Shady Brook, the man and woman were Mrs. Chester. Without that chamber deathly stillness reigned. Allwas as still within, save for the plaintive wails whichanon issued from a cradle in the center of the each sound of that little voice the woman started,then gazing imploringly upward, she clasped her handsagain and suffered her head to fall, in mute despairbeside the childish face, which seemed, in etherealwhiteness, as though it were a lily which had hadits birth in heaven whither it was about to be trans-planted to bloom an everlasting flower. Clifford, the pet and darling of that home, was dy-ing. Plainer and more forcibly was this truth re-v
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