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Gentlemen, the
read a thousand others, and of them all it was possibly the least
lamp close up against my cabin window. Fifteen minutes later I heard a
floor.html">floor at my feet.html">feet a young and beautiful woman.html">woman. And after her, dragging
upon the floor, and turned my attention first to the woman. She was
had blown about her like a veil. Her big, dark eyes looked at me
human eyes before. I bent over her, intending to carry her to my cot; but
man.html">man, with her arms about his head, and there burst from her lips the
than the wailing grief of the pine-trees out in the night, but they told
sort of way, and that his wide-open eyes were looking at the woman. Then
lips were swollen. His coat was loose at the throat, and I could see
eyes to me. 'We should have died--in a few minutes more--if it hadn't
help her to my cot. When I had attended to the young man, and he had
went to her, and dropped upon his knees beside the cot. Tenderly he drew
several minutes he remained with his face pressed close against hers;
passed between us during the next half-hour.html">hour. During that half-hour
He was my first penitent."
It was growing colder in the coach, and Father Charles stopped to draw
third time. The transient passenger gave a sudden start as a gust of wind
"He told me the story.html">story, kneeling at my feet--a story that will live. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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