The Strand Magazine, Vol. 05, Issue 29, May 1893

The Strand Magazine, Vol. 05, Issue 29, May 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly

In The Shadow Of The Sierras. The Royal Humane Society II. Shafts from an Eastern Quiver XI.--In Quest of the Lost Galleon Zig-Zags at the Zoo: Marsupial Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes XVIII.--The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual From Behind the Speaker's Chair V. At Dead of Night. Illustrated Interviews: XXII.--Sir Robert Rawlinson Beauties:Children. The Adjutant's Love-story. The Queer Side of Things. Barbara Thorne sat leaning her head on her hand, looking at a photograph that lay on the table beneath her eyes. She had not intended to look for that when she pulled out a dusty drawer full of old letters, papers, and account-books to arrange and set in order. But when in the course of her rummaging and tidying she found that picture in her hand, she paused in her task. The neglected drawer stood open, with its dusty packets and rolls of faded papers. Barbara had forgotten it and all else around her. She sat there lost in memory, her eyes fixed upon the "counterfeit presentment" of the face that once had been all the world to her. She did not often think of Oliver Desmond now; to think of him meant only painpain of outraged pride and wounded love. She had outgrown the time when she could not tear her thoughts from him, when his face was in her "mind's eye" by night and day, and yet she shrank with a shuddering revolt of anguish from those pictures of the past which she could not banish. For the memory that was the locked-up skeleton of her lifethat rattled its dead bones to-day as Oliver Desmond's pictured eyes smiled into herswas a cruel memory indeed, of grief and wrong and bitter humiliation, of broken troth and shattered faith, insulted love, and crushed and martyred pride. The blow that had rankled like iron in her heart for years was base and cowardly as a stab in the back from the hand that should have shielded and cherished her. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 30443
Author: Various
Release Date: Nov 10, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Newnes, George, 1851-1910