worse-than-dead

Updated: June 9, 2025

Matthew was not a transcendental philosopher; and the true answers to these questions did not come to him. Old Van Quintem, pale and beautiful in his declining years, sat by the window that opened on the green leaves of the back yard, calmly smoking his pipe, and thinking, with a holy sadness, of his dead wife and his worse-than-dead son.

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