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Dawn of a Tomorrow
Dawn of a Tomorrow by Frances Hodgson Burnett A man, depressed, desperate, on the brink of cutting the delicate thread that ties him to this earth, in his mind there is no tomorrow. After today, no more sleepless nights, no more remembering, never more to wake. After today... but where will he be tomorrow? He asks himself that question, but cannot find an answer. No tomorrow... From the first, the reader is drawn into a story of Antony Dart, who is on his way to end his own life...a life without God, and therefore without hope. The fog is dense; he wanders around on his way to the pawn shop to buy the pistol. With that done, once more he goes out into the fog. And then, he meets a little girl. She is a poor, ragged child of the streets, but for some irresistible reason Dart follows her, though he knows not why. She leads him to Apple Blossom Court where she lives, a dirty, rundown, dark place like so many in the slums of London. There, he meets a woman whose past has been a life of sin...