The Shadow of a Sin

By Charlotte M. Brame, Bertha M. Clay, Bertha M. [Charlotte M. Brame] Clay

Book Overview

"She is coming-my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat Had it lain for a century dead." A rich musical voice trolled out the words, not once, but many times over-carelessly at first, and then the full sense of them seemed to strike the singer. "'Had it lain for a century dead, '" he repeated slowly. "Ah, me the difference between poetry and fact-when I have lain for a century dead, the light footfalls of a fair woman will not awaken me. 'Beyond the sun, woman's beauty and woman's love are of small account;' yet here-ah, when will she come?"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512110299
• ISBN13: 9781512110296
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"