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Window in Thrums

James Matthew Barrie

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...with a steady mouth. Hers was the tragedy of living on, more mournful than the tragedy that kills. In Thrums the weavers spoke of " lousing" from their looms, removing the chains, and there is something woful in that. But pity poor Nanny Coutts, who took her chains to bed with her. Nanny was buried a month or more before I came to the house on the brae, and even in Thrums the dead are seldom remembered for so long a time as that. But it was only after Sanders was left alone that we learned what a woman she had been, and how basely we had wronged her. She was an angel, Sanders went about whining when he had no longer a woman to illtreat. He had this sentimental way with him, but it lost its effect after we knew the man. "A dcevil couldna hae deserved waur treatment," Tammas Haggart said to him; "gang oot o' my sicht, man!" "I'll blame mysel' till I die," Jess said, with tears in her eyes, "for no understandin' puir Nanny better." So Nanny got sympathy at last, but not until her forgiving soul had left he1 tortured body. There was many a kindly heart in Thrums that would have gone out to her in her lifetime, but we could not have loved her without upbraiding him, and she would not buy sympathy at the price. What a little story it is, and how few words are required to tell it! He was a bad husband to her, and she kept it secret. That is Nanny's life summed up. It is all that was left behind when her coffin went down the brae. Did she love him to the end, or was she only doing what she thought her duty? It is not for me even to guess. A good woman who suffers is altogether beyond man's reckoning. To such heights of self-sacrifice we cannot rise. It crushes us; it ought to crush us on to our knees. For us who saw...

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38 pages, 73 editions

English edition · First published 1896 by RareBooksClub.com · ISBN 9781231312032

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  • Window in Thrums · RareBooksClub.com · 2012 · ISBN 9781231312032 This page
  • A Window in Thrums · hansebooks · 2024 · ISBN 9783348126724
  • A Window in Thrums · Independently Published · 2021 · ISBN 9798723677036
  • Window in Thrums · Independently Published · 2021 · ISBN 9798724372886
  • Window in Thrums · Independently Published · 2021 · ISBN 9798465826471
  • Window in Thrums · Independently Published · 2021 · ISBN 9798724372961
  • A Window in Thrums · Independently Published · 2021 · ISBN 9798741523391
  • Window in Thrums · Independently Published · 2021 · ISBN 9798592965845
  • Window in Thrums · Independently Published · 2020 · ISBN 9798691563096
  • A Window in Thrums · iBoo Press House · 2020 · ISBN 9781641813464
  • A Window in Thrums · Independently Published · 2020 · ISBN 9798674482987
  • A Window in Thrums · Independently Published · 2020 · ISBN 9798642434116
  • A Window in Thrums · Independently Published · 2020 · ISBN 9798607471668
  • Window in Thrums · Independently Published · 2020 · ISBN 9798682341900
  • A Window in Thrums · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 2019 · ISBN 9780530120362
  • A Window in Thrums · Independently Published · 2019 · ISBN 9781691637393
  • A Window in Thrums · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 2019 · ISBN 9780530120379
  • A Window in Thrums · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2018 · ISBN 9781986508063
  • A Window in Thrums · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2018 · ISBN 9781725671607
  • A Window in Thrums · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2018 · ISBN 9781985095557
  • A Window in Thrums · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2018 · ISBN 9781985875937
  • A Window in Thrums · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2018 · ISBN 9781984378125
  • A Window in Thrums · Trieste Publishing Pty Limited · 2017 · ISBN 9780649255696
  • A window in Thrums · Trieste Publishing Pty Limited · 2017 · ISBN 9780649070107
  • A Window in Thrums · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2017 · ISBN 9781979418553
  • A Window in Thrums · Capital Communications, Incorporated · 2017 · ISBN 9781374936461
  • A Window in Thrums · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2017 · ISBN 9781981497171
  • A Window in Thrums · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2017 · ISBN 9781978395374
  • A Window in Thrums · Hansebooks GmbH · 2017 · ISBN 9783744756464
  • A Window in Thrums · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 2016 · ISBN 9781373153579
  • A Window in Thrums · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 2016 · ISBN 9781355295686
  • A Window in Thrums · HARDPRESS Limited · 2016 · ISBN 9781318860265
  • A Window in Thrums · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 2016 · ISBN 9781359730763
  • Window in Thrums · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 2015 · ISBN 9781353932965
  • A Window in Thrums · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2015 · ISBN 9781519539335
  • A Window in Thrums · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 2015 · ISBN 9781341346101
  • A Window in Thrums · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 2015 · ISBN 9781346758077
  • A Window in Thrums · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 2013 · ISBN 9781484867846
  • Window in Thrums... · Nabu Press · 2012 · ISBN 9781279823590
  • A Window in Thrums · Nabu Press · 2010 · ISBN 9781146360548
  • Window in Thrums · General Books LLC · 2010 · ISBN 9781153757805
  • A Window in Thrums · Nabu Press · 2010 · ISBN 9781177129121
  • A Window in Thrums · Nabu Press · 2010 · ISBN 9781177466721
  • A Window in Thrums · Nabu Press · 2010 · ISBN 9781177895149
  • A Window in Thrums · Nabu Press · 2010 · ISBN 9781176298811
  • A Window in Thrums · BiblioLife · 2009 · ISBN 9781115614009
  • A Window in Thrums · BiblioLife · 2009 · ISBN 9781115613996
  • A Window in Thrums · Cornell University Library · 2009 · ISBN 9781429762670
  • A Window in Thrums · Wildside Press, LLC · 2008 · ISBN 9781434475619
  • A Window in Thrums · Read Books · 2008 · ISBN 9781409785064
  • A Window in Thrums · Wildside Press, LLC · 2008 · ISBN 9781434475688
  • A Window in Thrums · Standard Publications, Incorporated · 2008 · ISBN 9781438507583
  • A Window in Thrums · Bibliolife · 2008 · ISBN 9780559231803
  • A Window in Thrums · Tutis Digital Publishing Pvt. Limited · 2008 · ISBN 9788132029014
  • A Window in Thrums · Tutis Digital Publishing Pvt. Limited · 2008 · ISBN 9788132003601
  • A Window in Thrums · Kessinger Publishing, LLC · 2007 · ISBN 9780548219607
  • A Window in Thrums · BiblioBazaar · 2007 · ISBN 9781434669582
  • A Window in Thrums · Read Books · 2006 · ISBN 9781406715132
  • A Window in Thrums · Fredonia Books · 2002 · ISBN 9781589631182
  • Window in Thrums · Classic Textbooks · 1896 · ISBN 9781404774315

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