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Shem stepped lightly to a corner of the cabin and brought forth a rifle and began reloading it afresh from a box of shells. A wavering figure crept across the small stump-dotted "dead'ning" Anse Dugmore was upon his errand. He dragged the rifle by the barrel, so that its butt made a crooked, broken furrow in the new snow like the trail of a crippled snake.
I am parting, broken, parting, From a soul that I hold dear, And the music of whose beauty Fades a dead strain on my ear. I am dying, sweetheart, dying, Drips life's gold through palsied hands, See; the dead'ning Sun is sighing His last note in red'ning bands. So I'm sighing, sinking, sighing, Flows life's river to the sea. Death my throbbing heart is tying With the strings that ache for thee.
"I wonder what has changed him." "Food for mental occupation," said Sarah. "'A life monotonous, unrelieved, breeds selfish discontent, Dead'ning a mind to lofty thought for which by nature meant." Prudence brought the machine to a standstill, and propping one elbow upon the table rested her chin upon her hand. "I believe you are right, Aunt Sarah," she said slowly.
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