Underclothing at all beneath her white drill frock. She had occasionally found forming in her mind of wearing no Resolutely put aside, as promptings of the evil one, all the thoughts A corset, inįact, was quite an impossibility in Central Africa, although Rose had Of the age of fourteen and upwards ever appeared in public. It was this sensation which helped most to reconcile Rose'sĬonscience to the absence, in this her approaching middle age, of herĬorset-a garment without which, so she had always been taught, no woman Hands which Rose clasped together were wet as though dipped in water,Īnd she could feel the streams of sweat running down beneath her clothesĪs she knelt, and forming two little pools at the backs of her bent The damp heat of the African forest seemed to be intensified with theĬoming of the night, which closed in upon them while they prayed. Those hands were, and how the bones of the wrists could be seen with Moment before she devoutly closed her eyes, how thin and transparent Movement was more like an involuntary collapse than a purposed gesture,Īnd the hands which he raised trembled violently. Weak indeed, and when he knelt to offer up the evening prayer the TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter NineteenĪlthough she herself was ill enough to justify being in bed had she beenĪ person weak-minded enough to give up, Rose Sayer could see that herīrother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, was far more ill. Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.Īs part of the conversion of the book to its new digitalįormat, we have made certain minor adjustments in its layout, & the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1979 In your country, do not download or redistribute this file. If you live outside Canada, check yourĬountry's copyright laws. This work is in the Canadian public domain, but may be underĬopyright in some countries. Gutenberg.ca/links/licence.html before proceeding. If either of these conditions applies, please These restrictions apply only if (1) you makeĪ change in the ebook (other than alteration for differentĭisplay devices), or (2) you are making commercial use of This ebook is made available at no cost and with very few
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