 | Literature - 1886 - 922 pages
...while actual death was slowly taking place, unconsciousness must have been as kindly to her as death : she possibly felt nothing, but gently breathed herself...and bread scarce, and there wasn't much money for pyramids and billiards. The parents did not care for the new-born baby in the box, nor for that wasting... | |
 | American periodicals - 1886 - 894 pages
...while actual death was slowly taking place, unconsciousness must have been as kindly to her as death : she possibly felt nothing, but gently breathed herself...and bread scarce, and there wasn't much money for pyramids and billiards. The parents did not care for the newborn baby in the box, nor for that wasting... | |
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... could not raise a limb. Her bones almost protruded through the bed-sores which added misery to her misery. Happily, during many of the last days through which she lay in darkness and bitter cold, while actual death was slowly taking place, unconsciousness... 