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After Dark by Wilkie Collins (World Cultural Heritage Library)
After Dark by Wilkie Collins - World Cultural Heritage Library Author:Wilkie Collins He says that the prospect of sitting idle and being kept by his wife for months to come, is something more wretched and hopeless than words can describe. I try to raise his spirits by reminding him of his years of honest hard work for me and the children, and of the doctor's assurance that his eyes will get the better, in good time, of t... more »heir present helpless state. But he still sighs and murmurs-being one of the most independent and high spirited of men-about living a burden on his wife. I can only answer, what in my heart of hearts I feel, that I took him for Better and for Worse; that I have had many years of the Better, and that, even in our present trouble, the Worse shows no signs of coming yet!« less