Brotherly House: A Christmas Story

Brotherly House

"It seems to me," said Mr. Stephen Kingsley thoughtfully to himself, as he laid down his younger brother Samuel's letter, "that it would be a very good thing to get Sam and Sylvester together. Judging by this letterand one I had not long ago from Sylit must be some three or four years since they've metvoluntarily. And that is too longaltogether too longfor brothers to remain in relationserlacking harmony." He perused the letter again. As he had observed, its general tenor certainly did suggest that the relations between Samuel and Sylvester lacked harmony, and that that was a very mild putting of the case. Samuel's terse phrases left the situation in no doubt whatever. "I don't like to say it to you, Stephen," the letter ran in one portion, "but Sylvester has acted not only unfairly, but contemptibly. I could have forgiven him the act itself, but the manner of the actnever. It was done too deliberately, too designedly, to be overlooked. I shall not overlook it. I shall" etc. In short, the letter had not been pleasant reading. The white-haired brother who read it, lying back among his invalid's pillows, with a wry little twist of pain about his gentle lips as his eyes laboriously followed Samuel's vigorous scrawls and equally vigorous language, felt it to be a matter in which it was time to interfere. Men and brothers of the age of Samuel and Sylvesterneither would see forty-five years againshould not be allowed to feel in this way toward each other if their elder brother could help it. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 53402
Author: Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)
Release Date: Oct 29, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Fogarty, Thomas, 1873-1938