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Updated: May 22, 2025
Mother was on his arm and she walked clear to the gate with him. "LADDIE, ARE YOU SURE ENOUGH TO GO?" I heard her ask him whisper-like. "SURE AS DEATH!" Laddie answered. Mother looked, and she had to see how it was with him; no doubt she saw more than I did from having been through it herself, so she smiled kind of a half-sad, half-glad smile.
Unmistakably it was uttered by the same being heard on former occasions; but today it was different in character. The utterance was far more rapid, with fewer silent intervals, and it had none of the usual tenderness in it, nor ever once sunk to that low, whisper-like talking which had seemed to me as if the spirit of the wind had breathed its low sighs in syllables and speech.
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