Well, maybe Mrs Beecher forgot to give it to
him.
And Aunt Laura slips in acooky or an apple turnover
when Aunt Elizabeths back is turned.
It is very easy to get arepputation for pride in
Blair Water school. I dont think shes deceitful, said Emily, loyal to the
lastditch.
The amountof heart-burning was
incredible.
There will be no bangs here, said Aunt
Elizabeth.
She must hurry up tothe garret and write it on a
letter-bill.
I didnt think youd gimp enough for that,
saidIlse.
Alice in Wonderland, which isperfectly lovely, and
the Memoirs of Anzonetta B. A lovelyTiger-book, full of pictures and stories of
tigers that make mefeel so nice and shivery. When she had covered the backs of four
letter-bills she could seeto write no more.
I wish I hadmade it when you were alive for I think
youd have liked to know. Already she felt as ifshe belonged to this old cradle of
her family. There issome mystery about Ilses mother which I cannot
fathom.
Cause of the trick her mother played him, said Mr
Slade, with achuckle.
I like to read thembecause they have so many pretty
words in them, but I dont likethe feel of them. Emily, who should have been doing a
sum in long division, droppedher pencil and listened entranced.
Besides I am sure that if I talkedhyms to people it
would exite ridicule. Nobody would ever come across them there.
Oh, if I could only tell Father all about
it!
Oh, Father dear, I have made a great diskoverry.
Itwas very rotten and he decided it was time it was disposed of. As for Ilse
Burnley,she did not appear after that first day. Oh, Aunt Elizabeth, DO let me have
a bang.
Oh, Aunty, they have such lovely blank backs for
writing on.
If it would make a beauty of her it must
becompassed somehow.