Half-Brothers

Elizabeth Gaskell

Description

In this masterfully suspenseful short story from Victorian-era author Elizabeth Gaskell, the strained relationship between two half-brothers -- one beloved and one largely shunned by the family -- comes to a head suddenly when the younger of the two finds himself in terrible danger.

Sujets

• Short story

Informations

• Publié par: The Floating Press
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781776599790
• Langue: English

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THE HALF-BROTHERS
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ELIZABETH GASKELL
 
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The Half-Brothers
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My mother was twice married. She never spoke of her first husband, andit is only from other people that I have learnt what little I know abouthim. I believe she was scarcely seventeen when she was married to him:and he was barely one-and-twenty. He rented a small farm up inCumberland, somewhere towards the sea-coast; but he was perhaps too youngand inexperienced to have the charge of land and cattle: anyhow, hisaffairs did not prosper, and he fell into ill health, and died ofconsumption before they had been three years man and wife, leaving mymother a young widow of twenty, with a little child only just able towalk, and the farm on her hands for four years more by the lease, withhalf the stock on it dead, or sold off one by one to pay the morepressing debts, and with no money to purchase more, or even to buy theprovisions needed for the small consumption of every day. There wasanother child coming, too; and sad and sorry, I believe, she was to thinkof it.