Barry Pain

Perhaps the prayer that is offered when the time for praying is over is more terribly pathetic than any other. Yet one might hesitate to say that this prayer was unanswered.(“The Undying Thing”)

Perhaps the prayer that is offered when the time for praying is over is more terribly pathetic than any other. Yet one might hesitate to say that this prayer was unanswered.(“The Undying Thing”)

– Barry Pain –

Gaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers

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It came at last.”‘Dr. Graham, tell me,’ she asked tremulously, ‘do you believe that prayers – wicked unreasonable prayers – are granted?’He helped himself to another slice of bread-and-butter before answering. ‘Well-‘ he said slowly, ‘it seems hard to believe that every fool who has a voice to pray with and a brain to conceive idiotic requests should be permitted to interfere with the economy of the universe. As a rule, if people were long-sighted enough to foresee the result of their petitions, I fancy very few of us would venture to interfere.’ (“The Story of A Ghost”)

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