[Gutenberg 4348] • Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby
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- Authors
- Norris, Kathleen Thompson
- Tags
- american fiction -- 20th century , short stories
- ISBN
- 9781406926293
- Date
- 2003-07-31T22:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.25 MB
- Lang
- en
But the hour was darker and colder for Alanna. She searched and she hoped and she prayed in vain. She stood up, after a long hands-and- knees expedition under the tables where she had been earlier, and pressed her right hand over her eyes, and said aloud in her misery, "Oh, I CAN'T have lost it! I CAN'T have. Oh, don't let me have lost it!"