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"She was really dead all the time, then," he said below his breath.
Then the child fell back without another word, and dropped off into the sleep which was the first step to final recovery.
THE END
The Education of Uncle Paul
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CHAPTER I
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... I stand as mute
As one with full strong music in his heart Whose fingers stray upon a shattered lute.
ALICE MEYNKLL.
All night the big liner had been plunging heavily, but towards morning she entered quieter water, and when the passengers woke, her rising and falling over the great swells was so easy that even the sea-sick women admitted the relief.
'Land in sight, sir! We shall see Liverpool within twenty hours now, barring fog.'
The friendly bathroom steward passed the open door of Stateroom No. 28, and the big, brown-bearded man in the blue serge suit who was sitting, already dressed, on the edge of the port-hole berth, started as though he had been shot, and ran up on deck without waiting to finish tying the laces of his india-rubber shoes.