General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: E. Nash Subjects: Fiction / Ghost Fiction / Horror Fiction / Short Stories Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE DANCE OF DEATH Browne went to the dance feeling genuinely depressed, for the doctor had just warned him that his heart was weak and that he must be exceedingly careful in the matter of exertion. " Dancing ? " he asked, with that assumed lightness some natures affect in the face of a severe shock -- the plucky instinct to conceal pain. " Well -- in moderation, perhaps," hummed the doctor. " Not wildly !" he added, with a smile that betrayed something more than mere professional sympathy. At any other time Browne would probably have laughed, but the doctor's serious manner put a touch of ice on the springs of laughter. At the age of twenty-six one hardly realises death ; life is still endless ; and it is only old people who have " hearts " and such-like afflictions. So it was that the professional dictum came as a real shock ; and with it too, as a sudden revelation, came that little widening of sympathy for others that is part of every deep experience as the years roll up and pass. At first he thought of sending an excuse. He went about carefully, making the 'buses stop dead before he got out, and going very slowly up steps. Then gradually he grew more accustomed to the burden of his dread secret: the commonplace events of the day ; the hated drudgery of the office, where he was an underpaid clerk ; the contact with other men who bore similar afflictions with assumed indifference; the fault-finding of the manager, making him fearful of his position -- all this helped to reduce the sense of first ala...
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