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chapter one
although she herself was enough to justify and being in bed had she been a
person weak minded enough to give up
rose say a conceded her brother the reverend samuel santa
was far more ill
he was very very weak indeed
and money not to offer up beating prayer
the movement was more like an involuntary collapse than a purpose
gesture
and the hands which he raised
trembled violently
rose could see
in the moments before she developed we close our eyes how often
and transparent at those hands were
and how the bones of the wrists could be seen at almost the definition of the
skeletons
the damp heat of the african forest seem to be intensified with the coming of the
night which closed in upon them
while they prayed
the hands which rose class together
or wept as though dipped in water and she could feel the streams of sweat
running down beneath a close as she knelt
and forming too little pools of the backs of the ben means
it was a sensation
which help most to reconcile roses conscience to the absence in despair
approaching middle age of corset and comment without which
so she always being taught no woman of the age of fourteen in upwards ever
appeared in public
because in fact was quite an impossibility in central africa
old arose and resolutely put aside as prompting zombie evil one although
thoughts she occasionally from forming in the mind of wearing no wonder closing
at albany for white drill frock
under the stress of this wet heat
that notion even return to the solemn moment prabir grows spend it away
and then her mind once more with anguished intensity to the prayer which
samuel with offering in these people voice
and where this whole thing afferents
samuel crater heavenly guidance in the ordering of their lives and for the
forgiveness invests in
and he began to other is customary petitioned for the blessing of god upon
the mission
his voice faulted more and more
the mission
the which they've given their lives
could only be sent to exist now the farm hannah communist troops have descended
upon the placements swept off the entire village
com that's and he like
to be soldiers who will bear is in the army of german central africa which he
was assembling
livestock and poultry pops and pans and foodstuffs all have been taken
even the portable chapel
leaving only the mission bungalows standing on the edge of the deserted
clearing
to the weakness vanished from samuels forces he went on to pray that the coil
for calamity of wall which had descended upon the world boots and pass away
the passport
and destruction