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Title: The Blood Red Dawn
Author: Charles Caldwell Dobie
Release Date: April 3, 2004 [eBook #11875]
Language: English
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THE BLOOD RED DAWN
by
CHARLES CALDWELL DOBIE
1920
To My Mother
Book I
CHAPTER I
The pastor's announcement had been swallowed up in a hum of truant
inattention, and as the heralded speaker made his appearance upon the
platform Claire Robson, leaning forward, said to her mother:
"What?... Did you catch his name?"
"A foreigner of some sort!" replied Mrs. Robson, with smug sufficiency.
For a moment the elder woman's sneer dulled the edge of Claire's
anticipations, but presently the man began to speak, and at once she
felt a sense of power back of his halting words, a sudden bursting fort
of bloom amid the frozen assembly that sat ice-bound, refusing to be
melted by the fires of an alien enthusiasm.
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