She dropped her head on her arms. For a long moment she sat and wept. Then again she took up her pen....
And behind her, as if it were something else that she had taken up, as if a hand had suddenly lifted it from the floor and belted it to a brave side, the shaft of light that was like a sword vanished out of the kitchen, leaving it gentle and dusky with the coming night....
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William Brendon & Son, Ltd.
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