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    Comrades
    Comrades
    Comrades
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    Comrades

    By Howard E. Smith and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Comrades - Howard E. Smith

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Comrades, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Comrades

      Author: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

      Illustrator: Howard E. Smith

      Release Date: November 8, 2010 [EBook #34255]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COMRADES ***

      Produced by Al Haines

      We're All That's Left of the Charles Darlington Post.

      See page 19.

      COMRADES

      BY

      ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS

      ILLUSTRATED BY

      HOWARD E. SMITH

      HARPER & BROTHERS

      NEW YORK AND LONDON

      M . C . M . X . I

      COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY HARPER & BROTHERS

      PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1911

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      We're All That's Left of the Charles Darlington Post . . . . . . Frontispiece

      Folks Don't Amount to Anything. It's You, Peter

      She Thought of the Slow News of the Slaughtering Battles

      COMRADES

      In the late May evening the soul of summer had gone suddenly incarnate, but the old man, indifferent and petulant, thrashed upon his bed. He was not used to being ill, and found no consolations in weather. Flowers regarded him observantly—one might have said critically—from the tables, the bureau, the window-sills: tulips, fleurs-de-lis, pansies, peonies, and late lilacs, for he had a garden-loving wife who made the most of the dull season, after crocuses and daffodils, and before roses. But he manifested no interest in flowers; less than usual, it must be owned, in Patience, his wife. This was a marked incident. They had lived together fifty years, and she had acquired her share of the lessons of marriage, but not that ruder one given chiefly to women to learn—she had never found herself a negligible quantity in her husband's life. She had the profound maternal instinct which is so large an element in the love of every experienced and tender wife; and when Reuben thrashed profanely upon his pillows, staring out of the window above the vase of jonquils, without looking at her, clearly without thinking of her, she swallowed her surprise as if it had been a blue-pill, and tolerantly thought:

      Poor boy! To be a veteran and can't go!

      Her poor boy, being one-and-eighty, and having always had health and her, took his disappointment like a boy. He felt more outraged that he could not march with the other boys to decorate the graves to-morrow than he had been, or had felt that he was, by some of the important troubles of his long and, on the whole, comfortable life. He took it unreasonably; she could not deny that. But she went on saying Poor boy! as she usually did when he was unreasonable. When he

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