Peggy-Alone

House really and truly, and were right there where we had so often pretended to live, you as C

, shining imps danced in them, wanti

en you said something that wasn't at all funny but gav

alace, with its red room and its green room

You couldn't help but see lovely

thought to her home being so much finer than ours; sh

inks people are what t

the reason she wanted to give you the pleasure of

far away; again she was looking from that

sn't in the library. But it wasn't me in particular, Lol, that Alene wanted

first when I proposed that she should join the Happy-Go-Luckys, it was just because she looked so lonely with only the dog to play with, in that great house with its acres of grounds; and when she said her Uncle called her 'Peggy-Alone', I could see

hes, "makes some people mild and sweet-tempered, they say, but it only makes me hatefuller and selfisher every day! Lol, I'm going to tell you something so you'll see what a

got sorry as y

my conduct with others; but you were unselfish-you didn't stop t

imed this with as much earnestness as if

escribe, no painter nor poet that ever lived, glimpses of glory that God lets shine down, sometimes, when the Pearly Gate is opened just a narrow

cious book and per

ead it to Alene? I k

ing with Alene she brought forth a green paper-covered copy-

upon a

settling herself comfortably against a tree, and

skimming through the air, while on the other side the grass and flowers lay withered, the trees leaned over, leafless and dead, and perched in their branches were mute, broken-winged birds

puzzled? Perhaps I can smooth the wrinkles fro

what I had seen that I never thought of being afraid

those which never came to blossom but died in the bud, whilst on the other are

voiceles

ought of, but left undone, while those performed multip

ed; Prince lay blinking in the sunshine; the birds and insects gave n

lized the calm; the heat gave them only a sense of well-b

r, merciful, forgiving one another even as God hath forgiven you in Christ." She wished that she too might go through the Garden of Good Intentions whilst flowers sprang up and birds

e blew up till every leaf and blade of grass quivered with joy; a bird twittered softly and was answere

at her thoughts had divined

the Happy-Go-Luckys' constitution, pledging each member to th

fragrant flowers? Oh, Laura!" crie