Subject for November, 2016
Chapter 20 – At Forty
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
"NEARLY twenty years since I set out to seek my fortune. It has been a long search, but I think I have found it at last. I only asked to be a useful, happy woman, and my ...
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Chapter 19 – Little Heart’s-Ease
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
WHEN it was all over, the long journey home, the quiet funeral, the first sad excitement, then came the bitter moment when life says to the bereaved: "Take up your burden...
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Chapter 18 – Sunrise
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
THREE months later the war seemed drawing toward an end, and Christie was dreaming happy dreams of home and rest with David, when, as she sat one day writing a letter full of ...
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Chapter 17 – The Colonel
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
TEN years earlier Christie made her début as an Amazon, now she had a braver part to play on a larger stage, with a nation for audience, martial music and the boom of c...
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Chapter 16 – Mustered In
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
CHRISTIE’S return was a very happy one, and could not well be otherwise with a mother, sister, and lover to welcome her back. Her meeting with Letty was indescribably te...
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Chapter 15 – Midsummer
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
"NOW it is all over. I shall never have another chance like that, and must make up my mind to be a lonely and laborious spinster all my life. Youth is going fast, and I h...
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Chapter 14 – Which?
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
DAVID. MR. POWER received Christie so hospitably that she felt at home at once, and took up her new duties with the energy of one anxious to repay a favor. Her friend knew wel...
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Chapter 13 – Waking Up
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
EVERY thing did "go beautifully" for a time; so much so, that Christie began to think she really had "got religion." A delightful peace pervaded her soul, ...
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Chapter 12 – Christie’s Gala
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
ON the fourth of September, Christie woke up, saying to herself: "It is my birthday, but no one knows it, so I shall get no presents. Ah, well, I’m too old for that...
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Chapter 11 – In The Strawberry Bed
Subject: Work: A Story of Experience
FROM that day a new life began for Christie, a happy, quiet, useful life, utterly unlike any of the brilliant futures she had planned for herself; yet indescribably pleasant t...
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