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For the Blood Is the Life and Other Stories by F Marion Crawford (Paperback / softback, 2013)

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SIR HUGH OCKRAM smiled as he sat by the open window of his study, in the late August afteron. A curiously yellow cloud obscured the low sun, and the clear summer light turned lurid, as if it had been suddenly poisoned and polluted by the foul vapours of a plague. Sir Hugh's face seemed, at best, to be made of fine parchment drawn skin-tight over a wooden mask, in which two sunken eyes peered from far within. The eyes peered from under wrinkled lids, alive and watchful like toads in their holes, side by side and exactly alike. But as the light changed, a little yellow glare flashed in each. He smiled, stretching pale lips across discoloured teeth in an expression of profound self-satisfaction, blended with the most unforgiving hatred and contempt for the human doll. Nurse Macdonald, who was a hundred years old, said that when Sir Hugh smiled he saw the faces of two women in hell--two dead women he had betrayed. The smile widened. The hideous disease of which Sir Hugh was dying had touched his brain. His son stood beside him, tall, white and delicate as an angel in a primitive picture. And though there was deep distress in his violet eyes as he looked at his father's face, he felt the shadow of that sickening smile stealing across his own lips, parting and drawing them against his will. It was like a bad dream, for he tried t to smile and smiled the more. Beside him--strangely like him in her wan, angelic beauty, with the same shadowy golden hair, the same sad violet eyes, the same lumiusly pale face--Evelyn Warburton rested one hand upon his arm. As she looked into her uncle's eyes, she could t turn her own away and she too knew that the deathly smile was hovering on her own red lips, drawing them tightly across her little teeth, while two bright tears ran down her cheeks to her mouth, and dropped from the upper to the lower lip. The smile was like the shadow of death and the seal of damnation upon her pure, young face. Of course, said Sir Hugh very slowly, still looking out at the trees, if you have made your mind up to be married, I cant hinder you, and I don't suppose you attach the smallest importance to my consent--Father! exclaimed Gabriel reproachfully. No. I do t deceive myself, continued the old man, smiling terribly. You will marry when I am dead, though there is a very good reason why you had better t--why you had better t, he repeated very emphatically, and he slowly turned his toad eyes upon the lovers. What reason? asked Evelyn in a frightened voice. Never mind the reason, my dear. You will marry just as if it did t exist. There was a long pause. Two gone, he said, his voice lowering strangely, and two more will be four all together forever and ever, burning, burning, burning bright.

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1494804018
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9781494804015
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Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
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English
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General & Literary Fiction
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F Marion Crawford

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Date of Publication
27/12/2013
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Black & White Illustrations
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United States

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