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Heres your parlour and I hope youll be satisfiednow, she said gaily.
Teddys
nice but his mother is queer, Ilse told her on their wayto the Tansy Patch. She
did her errand and returned with an untroubled conscience.
Some days I believe
theres a God and some days Idont. I dont believe YOU canwrite poetry, she
added. But Emily wanted another verse to round the poemoff properly and the
divine afflatus seemed gone.
I filled a whole letter-bill with it and thenI ran
and read it to Aunt Laura.
And dont yougo sneaking and praying for me behind my
back either. And dontyou go about Blair Water saying things about me, either.
Perhaps she, too, had received some orders from thedoctor.
She knew that it was
a cruel thingto shut an over-sensitive child like Emily in that gloomy room.
At
sight of it Emily stood stock stilland composed a verse of poetry.
Had Cousin
Jimmy lost the invitation on the road home?
VERY blank said Aunt Elizabeth
sarkastically though Ihadnt asked HER opinion.
Emily Byrd Starr, you DIDNT make
that out of your own head?
Emily was of a nature which even as achild, did not
readily recover from or forget such a blow. I suppose youwant to cut off my
lashes too.
Besides, theres only one God if there is any atall.
Besides I am
sure that if I talkedhyms to people it would exite ridicule.
If two girls
whispered or giggled together shethought she was being discussed and laughed
at.
Alice in Wonderland, which isperfectly lovely, and the Memoirs of Anzonetta
B.
For a month Emily was the most unhappylittle being in Blair Water.
I suppose
I disgraced theMurrays going barefoot. Itwas very rotten and he decided it was
time it was disposed of. Aunt Elizabeth told meI ought to try to be like
Anzonetta. As for Rhodanot being deceitful, I can tell you she IS. Most people
considered it a bare,lonely, neglected place, but Emily thought it was
fascinating. Muriel Porter doesnt know me, gasped Emily. Dot Payne never flies
into tempers, but would you like HERfor a chum?
For a month Emily was the most
unhappylittle being in Blair Water. One morning she coolly informedEmily that
her hair was to be shingled. I wonder what Aunt Elizabeth would feel like if I
was found hereDEAD, she thought, vindictively.
Some of the Murraytradishuns are
very sensible. Do you know what Im going to be when I grow up?
The Tansy Patch
was east of the Disappointed House, between theBlair Water and the sand-dunes.
Some days I believe theres a God and some days Idont.
Then he fritens mebut
they never last long.
It was a rather curious fact that from that day Emily
ceased togrieve over her lost friend.
Some days I believe theres a God and some
days Idont.
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