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A MODERN MEPHISTOPHELES
AND
A WHISPER IN THE DARK
LOUISA M. ALCOTT’S NOVELS.
- MOODS.
- WORK, a Story of Experience.
- A MODERN MEPHISTOPHELES, and A WHISPER IN THE DARK.
3 vols. 16mo. $1.50 each.
ROBERTS BROTHERS, Publishers,
BOSTON.
A
Modern Mephistopheles
AND
A Whisper in the Dark
By LOUISA M. ALCOTT
Author of “Moods;” “Work, a Story of Experience;”
“Little Women,” etc.
BOSTON
ROBERTS BROTHERS
1889
Copyright, 1877, 1889
By Roberts Brothers
University Press
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge
“The Indescribable,
Here it is done:
The Woman-Soul leadeth us
Upward and on!”
Second Part of Faust.
7A MODERN MEPHISTOPHELES.
I.
Without, a midwinter twilight, wherewandering snowflakes eddied in the bitterwind between a leaden sky and frost-boundearth.
Within, a garret; gloomy, bare, and cold as thebleak night coming down.
A haggard youth knelt before a little furnace,kindling a fire, with an expression of quiet desperationon his face, which made the simpleoperation strange and solemn.
A pile of manuscript lay beside him, and inthe hol
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