She—shrieking—turned and fled.

Free Press Flashes, 1881.

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DESPAIR.


Never Say Die.

A Dramatic Monologue.

The Minister of the Sect, which was abandoned by the man who did not drown himself, replies to the dramatic monologue on Despair which was published by that person in the “Nineteenth Century” for November, 1881.

So you’re minded to curse me, are you, for not having let you be,

And for taking the trouble to pull you out when your wife was drowned in the sea?