id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt broughton-rose-1870 broughton broughton-rose-1870 1870 .txt text/plain 140002 6574 79 She cannot hear what they say; she has no wish to hear--she has no wish for anything; only she lies, staring, with great eyes, straight before her at the bed-hangings, at the ceiling, at the little countless pigeon-holes in her toilet-table. Is it a beautiful tender fraud practised by themselves upon themselves, to save them from the despair of the black vagueness into which they must send out their departed ones, and go out themselves when life's little day is over? cache/broughton-rose-1870.txt txt/broughton-rose-1870.txt