"You have no dower," he said. "Live, Keturah.……" — Martine Leavitt
"You have no dower," he said. "Live, Keturah. Go home." "But I do have a dower," I said plainly. "This is my dower, Lord Death; the crown of flowers I will never wear at my wedding." He knelt on one knee before me. "The little house I would have had of my own, to furnish and clean. That, too, is part of my dower." "I will give you the world for your footstool," he said. "And most precious of all, I give you the wee baby I will never hold in my arms."
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Martine Leavitt
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Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.
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Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath…
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It is life that hurts you not death.
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