The Fear of Things (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Fear of Things

I had first Of all to believe in the trustworthiness Of the man whom I had sent to find out the truth for me. I had to believe in him before the seeing Of the letter in his hand could bear the happy interpretation which I put upon it. He might have been a bad man. He might have laid a scheme to hurt me. Knowing my position, and how anxiously I was awaiting news, he might have planned to deceive me. The letter which he waved in his hand might only be a part Of his game to lift my poor heart up to the Clouds only to let it dash itself next moment on the ground. It might have been no letter at all it might only have been an envelope. It might have contained nothing, or only an empty Sheet Of paper, or a Sheet bearing some angry words Of his own.

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