Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
The Golden Key; Or, A Heart's Silent Worship
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066137311
Table of Contents
“I DID NOT MEAN TO BETRAY MYSELF.”
THE GOLDEN KEY.
PROLOGUE.
A RESPONSIVE HEART.
“Nannie, I cannot bear it!”
“Hush, Alice; you must not give way to such wild grief—the excitement will be very bad for you.”
“But what will Adam say? It will be a terrible blow; his heart was so set upon the fulfilment of his hopes, and now——”
A heart-broken wail completed the sentence as the pale, beautiful woman, resting upon the snowy pillows of an old-fashioned canopied bed, covered her face with her delicate hands and fell to sobbing with a wild sorrow which shook her slight frame from head to foot.
“Alice! Alice! don’t! Adam will come home to find that he has lost both wife and child if you do not try to control yourself.”
The latter speaker, a tall, muscular woman, with a kindly but resolute face, which bespoke a strong character as well as a tender heart, knelt beside the bed, and