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The Truce of God
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Mary Roberts Rinehart's popular fiction-about nurses who solve crimes and adventurous spinsters-made her one of the most popular novelists and short-story writers of the early 20th century, a feminist, comic Raymond Chandler.
Mary Roberts Rinehart's popular fiction-about nurses who solve crimes and adventurous spinsters-made her one of the most popular novelists and short-story writers of the early 20th century, a feminist, comic Raymond Chandler.
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So she turned in the doorway and sang in her reedy little voice, much thinned by the cold, sang to soften her young father's heart.
"The Light of Light Divine,True Brightness undefined.
He bears for us the shame of sin,
A holy, spotless Child."
But the song failed. Perhaps it was the wrong hour, or perhaps it was because she had not slept in the manger and brought forth the gift of voice.
"Blood of the martyrs!" shouted her father, and raised himself on his elbow. "Are you mad? Get back to your bed. I shall have a word with someone for this."
Whether it had softened him or not it had stirred him, so she made her plea.
"It is His birthday. I want to see my mother."
Then she ducked under the curtain and ran as fast as she could back to where she belonged. Terror winged her feet. She had spo. . . Read More
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Cute Christmas short story. Listened via the CraftLit podcast.