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THE ANGEL OF PAIN
THE
ANGEL OF PAIN
BY
E. F. BENSON
AUTHOR OF
“THE CHALLONERS,” “DODO,” “THE IMAGE IN THE SAND,” ETC.
PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON
J. B. L I P P I N C O T T C O M P A N Y
1906
Copyright, 1905
By J. B. Lippincott Company
THE ANGEL OF PAIN
HE garden lay dozing in the summer sun, a sun, too, that was really hotand luminous, worthy of mid-June, and Philip Home had paid hisacknowledgments to its power by twice moving his chair into the shiftingshade of the house, which stood with blinds drawn down, as if blinkingin the brightness. Somewhere on the lawn below him, but hidden by theflower-beds of the terraced walk,