# My heart and my flesh

Author: Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, 1881-1941

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74183

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=My+heart+and+my+flesh+Roberts&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

As a child, Luce was running to the store to get a small can of oil, for it was growing dark and she had the lamp to fill. Across the street the lamp-lighter was lifting a burning swab of waste to the street-lamp, a gasoline lamp on the top of a high post. The lamp-lighter stood on a ladder to lift the brand, and when the lamp was lit he would take the ladder on his shoulder and walk away at an even step, the same yesterday and the same tomorrow. When he had new shoes the step was marked with crying leather. She ran past the lamp-lighter hardly giving a moment to look at him, for she knew all his ways and all his motions, all the rhythms of his feet. The street-lamp made a thin, feeble li...

## Chapters

- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-heart-and-my-flesh-74183/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-heart-and-my-flesh-74183/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-heart-and-my-flesh-74183/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-heart-and-my-flesh-74183/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-heart-and-my-flesh-74183/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-heart-and-my-flesh-74183/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-heart-and-my-flesh-74183/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-heart-and-my-flesh-74183/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-heart-and-my-flesh-74183/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-heart-and-my-flesh-74183/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-heart-and-my-flesh-74183/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-heart-and-my-flesh-74183/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-heart-and-my-flesh-74183/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-heart-and-my-flesh-74183/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-heart-and-my-flesh-74183/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-heart-and-my-flesh-74183/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-heart-and-my-flesh-74183/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/my-heart-and-my-flesh-74183/chapters/18/index.md)