A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)

A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance‪)‬

Publisher Description

It is doubtful whether the survivor of any order of things finds compensation in the privilege, however undisputed by his contemporaries, of recording his memories of it. This is, in the first two or three instances, a pleasure. It is sweet to sit down, in the shade or by the fire, and recall names, looks, and tones from the past; and if the Absences thus entreated to become Presences are those of famous people, they lend to the fond historian a little of their lustre, in which he basks for the time with an agreeable sense of celebrity. But another time comes, and comes very soon, when the pensive pleasure changes to the pain of duty, and the precious privilege converts itself into a grievous obligation.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1920
1 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
22
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SIZE
22.6
KB

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