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Title: The Belfry
Author: May Sinclair
Release Date: November 21, 2004 [eBook #14106]
Language: English
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THE BELFRY
by
MAY SINCLAIR
Author of the Three Sisters, etc.
1916
BOOK I
MY BOOK
I
Of course this story can't be published as it stands just yet. Not--if I'm to be decent--for another generation, because, thank Heaven, they're still alive. (They've had me there, as they've always had me everywhere.) How they managed it I can't think. I don't mean merely at the end, though that was stupendous, but how they ever managed it. It seems to me they must have taken all the risks, always.
I suppose if you asked him he'd say, "That's how." It was certainly the way they managed the business of living. Perhaps it's why they managed it on the whole so well. I remember how when I was shilly-shallying about that last job of mine he said, "Take it. Take it. If you can risk living at all, my dear fellow, you can risk that."
And he added, "If I'd only your next >