The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories

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away and left me; and now she lies here, the dearest and the last. Desolation after desolation has swept over me; for each hour o

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st be so. Three gifts remain. Only one of them

en chose Fame; and the fai

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came envy; then detraction; then calumny; then hate; then persecution. Then derision, which is the beginning of the end. And last of all came pi

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my hungry heart with their envy. I will have all luxuries, all joys, all enchantments of the spirit, all contentments of the body that man holds dear. I will buy, buy, buy! deference, respect, esteem, worship-eve

ring in a mean garret; and he was gaunt and wan and hollow-eyed,

Grief, Shame, Poverty. The fairy said true; in all her store there was but one gift which was precious, only one that was not valueless. How poor and cheap and mean I know those others now to be, compared with that ines

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