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The Moon Rock

The Moon Rock

Beyond World's Classics

by Arthur John Rees and Beyond Words Press
Paperback
Publication Date: 19/08/2020

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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. Debrett's Peerage was unimportant in the grave; breaches of social etiquette passed unnoticed there; the wagging of malicious tongues was stopped by dust. Her husband lingered at the grave-side after the others had departed. As he stood staring into the open grave, regardless of a lurking grave-digger waiting to fill it, he looked like a man whose part in the drama of life was Care. There was no hint of happiness in his long narrow face, dull sunken eyes, and bloodless compressed lips. His expression was not that of one unable to tear himself away from the last glimpse of a loved wife fallen from his arms into the clutch of Death. It was the gaze of one immersed in anxious thought.
ISBN:
9798676273408
9798676273408
Category:
Crime & Mystery
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
19-08-2020
Publisher:
Independently Published
Pages:
250
Dimensions (mm):
216x140x14mm
Weight:
0.32kg

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