With the Procession With the Procession

With the Procession

Publisher Description

With the Procession is a book of Fiction Classic story. When old Mr. Marshall finally took to his bed, the household viewed this action with more surprise than sympathy, and with more impatience than surprise. It seemed like the breaking down of a machine whose trustworthiness had been hitherto infallible; his family were almost forced to the acknowledgement that he was but a mere human being after all. They had enjoyed a certain intimacy with him, in lengths varying with their respective ages, but they had never made a full avowal that his being rested on any tangible physical basis. Rather had they fallen into the way of considering him as a disembodied intelligence, whose sole function was to direct the transmutation of values and credits and resources and opportunities into the creature comforts demanded by the state of life unto which it had please Providence to call them; and their dismay was now such as might occur at the Mint if the great stamp were suddenly and of its own accord to cease its coinage of double eagles and to sink into a silence of supine idleness. His wife and children acknowledged, indeed, his head and his hands those it were impossible to overlook; but his head stopped with the rim of his collar, while his hands those long, lean hands, freckled, tufted goldishly between joints and knuckles they never followed beyond the plain gilt sleeve buttons (marked with a Roman M) which secured the overlapping of his cuffs. No, poor old David Marshall was like one of the early Tuscan archangels, whose scattered members are connected by draperies merely, with no acknowledged organism within; nor were his shining qualities fully recognized until the resolutions passed by the Association of Wholesale Grocers reached the hands of his bereaved.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1895
January 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
356
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SELLER
Public Domain
SIZE
248.2
KB

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