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A Little Pilgrim
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Title: A Little Pilgrim
Author: Mrs. Oliphant
Release Date: March 19, 2005 [eBook #15410]
Language: English
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A LITTLE PILGRIM
In the Unseen
by
MRS. OLIPHANT
London MacMillan and Co., Limited New York: The MacMillan Company
1899
Puro e disposto a salire alle stelle.
_Purgaterio_, Canto xxxiii.
The sympathetic reader will easily understand that the following pages were never meant to be connected with any author's name. They sprang out of those thoughts that arise in the heart, when the door of the Unseen has been suddenly opened close by us; and are little more than a wistful attempt to follow a gentle soul which never knew doubt into the New World, and to catch a glimpse of something of its glory through her simple and child-like eyes.
In Memoriam
E.C.
25TH FEBRUARY 1882
A LITTLE PILGRIM IN THE UNSEEN
She had been talking of dying only the evening before, with a friend, and had described her own sensations after a long illness when she had been at the point of death. "I suppose," she said, "that I was as nearly gone as any one ever was to come back again. There was no pain in it, only a sense of sinking down, down-