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Too many dead kids.

, the action of mercy covered his pride like a flame and consumed it. He had never thought of himself a great sinner before, but he saw now that his true depravity had been hidden from him lest it cause him despair.

130-he understood it was all a man could carry in to death to give his maker, and he suddenly burned with shame that he had so little of it to take with him. He stood appalled, judging himself with the thoroughness of God, while

130-Mr. head had never known before what Mercy felt like because he had been too good to deserve any, but he felt he knew now.
130-Mr. head stood very still and felt the action of mercy touch him again but this time he knew that there were no words in the world that could name it. He understood that it grew out of agony, which is not denied to any man and which is given in strange ways to children.

The artificial sic
125-his mind had frozen around his grandfather‘s treachery as if he were trying to preserve it intact to present at the final judgment.
127- he felt he knew now what time would be like without seasons, and what heat would be like without light and what man would be like without salvation.
128-they could both feel it dissolving their differences like an action of mercy.

Important, I’m sure but I didn’t like it so much. It felt like a cloud came over my head whenever I read. Still, I remember her quote about northerners reading southern literature and then I feel ashamed and I press on.

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

wow that first story...what a nasty swerve. its not often i get surprised like that.