# Vain oblations

Author: Gerould, Katharine Fullerton, 1879-1944

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73693

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Vain+oblations+Gerould&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

As I was with Saxe during the four most desperate weeks of his life, I think I may say that I knew him better than any one else. Those were also the four most articulate weeks, for they were a period of terrible inaction, spent on the decks of ocean steamships. Saxe was not much given to talking, but there was nothing else to do. No book that has ever been written could have held his attention for two minutes. I was with him, for that matter, off and on, until the end. What I have to tell I got partly from my own observation, partly from a good little woman at the Mission, partly from Saxe’s letters, largely from his own lips, and partly from natives. But if I recorded it as it came, unas...

## Chapters

- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vain-oblations-73693/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vain-oblations-73693/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vain-oblations-73693/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vain-oblations-73693/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vain-oblations-73693/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vain-oblations-73693/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vain-oblations-73693/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vain-oblations-73693/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vain-oblations-73693/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vain-oblations-73693/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vain-oblations-73693/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vain-oblations-73693/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vain-oblations-73693/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vain-oblations-73693/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/vain-oblations-73693/chapters/15/index.md)