| The Naulahka Contributor(s): Kipling, Rudyard (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798678251664 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.77 lbs) 236 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Book Excerpt: ...wise and thorough. When the time came when those helpless, walled-up women should have no knowledge and no comfort to lean on but hers, she meant that they should lean on the strength of solid intelligence. Her trials were many, but it was her consolation in the midst of them all that her women loved her, and lived upon her comings and goings. Her devotion to her purpose carried her forward. She was presently in full charge, and in that long, bare ward where she strengthened so many sufferers for the last parting, where she lived with death and dealt with it, where she went about softly, soothing unspeakable pain, learning the note of human anguish, hearing no sound but the murmur of suffering or relief, she sounded one night the depths of her own nature, and received from -an inward monitor the confirmation of her mission. She consecrated herself to it afresh with a joy beyond her first joy of discovery.And now, every night at half-past eight, Tarvin's hat hung on the hat-rack in the hall-way of her... |
