Allan Quatermain (Allan Quatermain #2)
H. Rider Haggard
3.83 · 18 ratings · Published: 1887
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'I have just buried my boy, my poor handsome boy of whom I was so proud, and my heart is broken. It is very hard having only one son to lose him thus, but God's will be done. Who am I that I should complain? The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late it does not matter when, in the end, it crushes us all. We do not prostrate ourselves before it like the poor Indians; we fly hither and thither we cry for mercy; but it is of no use, the black Fate thunders on and in its season reduces us to powder. 'Poor Harry to go so soon! just when his life was opening to him. He was doing so well at the hospital, he had passed his last examination with honours, and I was proud of them, much prouder than he was, I think. And then he must needs go to that smallpox hospital. He wrote to me that he was not afraid of smallpox and wanted to gain the experience; and now the disease has killed him, and I, old and grey and withered, am left to mourn over him, without a chick or child to comfort me. I might have saved him, too-I have money enough for both of us, and much more than enough-King Solomon's Mines provided me with that; but I said, "No, let the boy earn his living, let him labour that he may enjoy rest." But the rest has come to him before the labour. Oh, my boy, my boy!
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The 'Allan Quatermain' series
133 ratings 3.81 ·- King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard Book #1
- Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard Book #2
- Maiwa's Revenge; Or, The War of the Little Hand by H. Rider Haggard Book #3
- Allan's Wife by H. Rider Haggard Book #4
- Marie by H. Rider Haggard Book #5
- Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard Book #6
- Allan and the Holy Flower by H. Rider Haggard Book #7
- The Ivory Child by H. Rider Haggard Book #8
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