Excerpt: ...said gravely. "It concerns your husband." "Is he-is he-is it the worst!" she managed to get out. "It is the worst," he answered simply, deeming it best to get it over as soon as possible. For a minute he seemed to have reason to congratulate himself on this idea. The rigid stony horror depicted on her features relaxed, giving way to a dazed, bewildered expression, as though she had borne the first brunt of the shock, and was calming down. "Tell me!" she gasped at length. "How was it? When? Where?" "It was across the Bashi. They were cut off by the Kafirs, and killed." "'They'? Who-who else?" Shelton wished the friendly earth would open beneath his feet then and there. "Mrs Carhayes, pray be calm," he said unsteadily. "You have heard the worst, remember-the worst, but not all. You cousin shared poor Tom's fate." "Eustace?" The word was framed, rather than uttered, by those livid and bloodless lips. Yet the listener caught it and bent his head in assent. She did not cry out; she did not swoon. Yet those who beheld her almost wished she had done both-anything rather than take the blow as she was doing. She stood there in the doorway-her tall form seeming to tower above them-her large eyes sparkling forth from her livid and bloodless countenance-and the awful and set expression of despair imprinted therein was such as the two who witnessed it prayed they might never behold on human countenance again. She had heard the worst-the worst, but not all-her informant had said. Had she? The mockery of it! The first news was terrible; the second-death; black, hopeless, living death. Had heard the worst! Ah, the mockery of it! And as these reflections sank into her dazed brain-driven in, as it were, one after another by the dull blows of a hammer, her lips...
Produktkennzeichnungen
ISBN-10
1153653621
ISBN-13
9781153653626
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15041431284
Produkt Hauptmerkmale
Sprache
Englisch
Anzahl der Seiten
104 Seiten
Verlag
Books Llc, Reference Series
Autor
Bertram Mitford
Buchtitel
'tween Snow And Fire A Tale of The Last Kafir War
Format
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
Zusätzliche Produkteigenschaften
Hörbuch
No
Inhaltsbeschreibung
Paperback
Item Length
24cm
Item Height
5mm
Item Width
18cm
Item Weight
219g
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