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Chapter 8 - (VERSO)

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that I was dying. None of those cowards would tell me. Can you help me”?

“If I cannot, God can,” said Mr. Leonard gently. He felt himself very helpless and inefficient before this awful terror and frenzy. He had seen sad death beds — troubled death beds —ay, and despairing death beds, but never anything like this.

“God!” Naomi’s voice shrilled terribly as she uttered the name. “I can’t go to God for help. Oh, I’m skeered of hell, but I’m skeereder still of God. I’d rather go to hell a thousand times over than face God after the life I’ve lived. I

 


TEXT ANNOTATION

From "Each in His Own Tongue."