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But to be alone—ah, Emily shivered with the delicious horror of it!
it was the wickedest thing anyone could do to find fault with God.
fairies dwell only in the kingdom of Happiness;
I’ve doubted many things, but I’ve never doubted that. Sometimes I’ve been afraid that she would get so far ahead of me in the ways of eternity that I’d never catch up. But I feel now that she’s waiting for me. And we’ll wait for you—we won’t hurry—we’ll loiter and linger till you catch up with us.”
she had seen, with other eyes than those of sense, the wonderful world behind the veil.
“She feels so much that she has to hide it,”
“What’s bred in the bone comes out in the flesh.
Em’ly Starr!”
“Em’ly Starr”
Misspell
“Listeners never hear any good of themselves,”
et
Ate
“I thought he hadn’t a cent.”
“Neither he had. But people can be rich without money.”
favered
angshus
Why is it that the nicest things never are helthy, Father?
big bang.
“Oh, there’s a devil all right, Father says. It’s only God he doesn’t believe in. And if there is a devil and no God to keep him in order, is it any wonder I’m scared of him?
“If I were you I’d hide my boots every time I went out of the gate,” said Aunt Laura. “But I wouldn’t forget to put them on before I came back. What Elizabeth doesn’t know will never hurt her.”
What amazed Emily, in whom things were bound to rankle for a time, was the way in which Ilse appeared to forget a quarrel the moment it was over.
suddenly that the shadow of his nose shot upward like a huge spear to the ceiling, and demanded in a startled voice,
et that apple!”
et instead of ate
“your Cousin Jimmy is a man—and men sometimes use expressions, in the heat of anger, that are not proper for little girls.”
fork over that ring or I’ll
forked it over,
“A human being should not kneel to anyone but God,”
