Impossible People.

Edité par Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, ., 1918

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Octavo, textured burgundy boards (hardcover), [332] pp. Good, with rubbing to covers. Impossible people were John Templar and his wife Janna: Joanna, whose gentle custom it was to read to him every evening what in the morning she had written. She kept a chronicle of their quiet lives in which she wrote down those things of no importance, that had happened to them. She found it a convenient means by which to convey to him such things as she wished him to know. If she talked, he slept. If she read, he might perhaps complain that she kept him awake: but he listened because there was music in her voice. At the beginning of the book were written these words - "John Templar married Joanna Chrystal while he was yet an undergraduate at Oxford and she as innocent as he. At a later date was added, it must be presumed by Joanna: And as deeply learned one as the other in ways of a world, that did not exist outside of their own imagining. From college John and Joanna went out into a wider world. He became curate and she "in charge." While curate he became father, not only to his people, but to Faith -- a daughter. And although plainly exhorted to add to his faith patience, he did not do it -- or even a son -- and Faith died of pneumonia, following measles (faith has died of much less). She died, yet lived again in the hearts of her impossible parents. And when the wound made by her dying was so healed that the hands of other children could touch it, they adopted another daughter, and they called her Hope and gave her charity -- which is love. Literature, Fiction bslic.…

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Titre
Impossible People.
Auteur
Wemyss, Mary C. E.
Éditeur
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, .
Année de publication
1918
Reliure
Couverture rigide

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We are a family run shop that has served book lovers for nearly fifty years. We have recently moved to larger quarters in Dade City - a town in central Florida known for its antiques stores and comfortable cafes. We specialize in Florida History and Americana, but carry a broad range of general used and secondhand books, and a small gallery of prints and maps. We offer certified appraisal services, and are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America, The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, and the Florida Antiquarian Booksellers' Association. We invite you to visit our webpage: http://www.OldFloridaBookStore.com. If you're a lover of old books, you may enjoy articles we've posted to our blog: http://www.OldFloridaBookStore.blogspot.com.…

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