O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 by Various
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raised them to his lips. "As long as I live, I shall never forget," he
said. "And others of us have seen it too in other ways--be sure America will never forget, either." She looked up at his untouched youth out of her beautiful sad eyes, the exalted light still shining through her tears. "Yes," she said, "you see it was--I don't know exactly how to put it--but it was England to America." "FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO" BY WILBUR DANIEL STEELE From _Pictorial Review_ When Christopher Kain told me his story, sitting late in his dressing-room at the Philharmonic I felt that I ought to say something, but nothing in the world seemed adequate. It was one of those times when words have no weight: mine sounded like a fly buzzing in the tomb of kings. And after all, he did not hear me; I could tell that by the look on his face as he sat there staring into the light, the lank, dark hair framing his waxen brow, his shoulders hanging forward, his lean, strong, sentient fingers wrapped around the brown neck of "Ugo," the 'cello, tightly. Agnes Kain was a lady, as a lady was before the light of that poor worn |
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