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Updated: May 24, 2025
There really did seem to be something different about her, and when we all had to blow to extinguish the candles on her birthday cake, all except the life-light in the middle, as a sign that the other years have passed, she really got quite pale, for she was afraid that in joke or through awkwardness some one would blow out her life-light. Thank goodness it was all right.
I don't much care for such things myself, for I'm always afraid that something might happen. Of course I know that it's only a superstition, but it would have been horribly unpleasant if anyone had blown out the life-light. Openly!! Lajos gave Hella an enormous square box of sweets, and secretly!! a silver ring with a heart pendant.
No grief-printed face bent in anguish above him; no eye watched for the latest breath; no ear for the dying word; but through the half-open door, came to the ear of the dying boy the coarse laugh of the inebriate the jest of the vile, and the frightful blasphemies of those whose way is the way of death. None saw the last life-light, as it broke into the dark, spiritual eyes of the boy.
Prayer can stay the trembling knee: If thou hast but one for me, Let it offered be today, Ere the life-light fades away. When my soul transcends the air, I no more shall need thy prayer: Let now, today, thy soul travail; 'Tis only now thy prayers avail.
'You thought to make a fool of me, with all sorts of infernal lies and deceptions; you have striven like the very Satan himself to tempt and mislead my Marianna. But wait a little. I will spend my last farthing, if necessary, in getting your life-light snuffed out before you are aware of it.
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