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Aunt Elizabeth dropped her knitting in amazement.
Kent crying there in the
darkness, with only her secret, tormentingheart-hunger for companion?
A Murray
didnot care what Potters thought or did.
The great thing was that she was going
to High School. What a lot of disagreeable things youve said, sighed Emily.
So
Aunt Elizabeth wont send me to Shrewsbury! Youmust have been fashioned out of
summer sunsets. Stick to facts for three years and see what you can makeof
them.
Carpenter says we should make every experience teach ussomething, she
wrote. I cant go to school any more here, protested Emily. Her slightly pointed
ears gave hera fawn-like charm. Nothing is wrong, said Aunt Elizabeth
haughtily.
Leave the realm of imagination severely alone and confineyourself to
ordinary life. She knew quitewell that life would not be very easy under Aunt
Ruths roof. WHY didnt Aunt Elizabeth name the condition? Perhaps the country
back of the North Wind where Diamondwent.
And his occasional complimentsgave
her self-confidence. Shewished Aunt Elizabeth would tell her to go. To tell the
truth, Aunt Elizabeth wasabsurdly taken aback.
If Iwere I wouldnt let her have
so much to do with Jarback Priest,either.
Butit wasnt because I was jealous of
Ilse that I cried that night atthe concert.
Suddenly she folded up her knitting
and rose.
At all other times Ilse is a darling andsuch good fun.
However, lets
come back to Emily of NewMoon. I dont think it is any faultto be deep, though
she spoke as if she thought it was.
Why, she even thinks she can preach
betterthan Mr. And THAT is what Blair Water is so scandalizedabout.
She was
gladwhen she heard Teddys whistle in Lofty Johns Bush.
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