Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches

Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches

Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Not because of the short period of her mourning was the...
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Author: Stuart, Ruth McEnery,1856-1917
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Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches

Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches

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Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches

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Author: Stuart, Ruth McEnery,1856-1917
Format: eBook
Language: English

Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches

Not because of the short period of her mourning was the news so incredible. But by a most exceptional mourning Moriah had put herself upon record as the most inconsolable of widows. The rules governing the wearing of the mourning garb are by no means stringent in plantation communities, and the widow who for reasons of economy or convenience sees fit to wear out her colored garments during her working hours is not held to account for so doing if she appear at all public functions clad in such weeds as she may find available. It is not even needful, indeed, that her supreme effort should attain any definite standard. Anybody can collect a few black things, and there is often an added pathos in the very incongruity of some of the mourning toilettes that pass up the aisles of the colored churches. Was not the soul of artlessness expressed in the first mourning of a certain young widow, for instance, who sewed upon her blue gown all the black trimming she could collect, declaring that she "would 'a' dyed de frock th'oo an' th'oo 'cep'n' it would 'a' swunked it up too much"? And perhaps her sympathetic companions were quite as nave as she, for, as they aided her in these first hasty stitches, they poured upon her wounded spirit the healing oil of full and sympathetic approval, as the following remarks will testify. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 20438
Author: Stuart, Ruth McEnery
Release Date: Jan 24, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English

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