Emily of New Moon

wo weeks more. In af

recollection, Emily

r memories. They w

. And one night, whe

room, with Emily besi

he curtain--went so q

was gone until she sud

--there was no breath

he cried. Then she

Murrays when they came

ok everything into acc

nd hadn't slept a win

ing kindly in to help

tears were all shed.

doci

" said Ellen, "that'

our pa was so mad at

il to me since--and h

against him. _I_ did

s for you, and it'll b

be here to-night, so t

d you looking respect

r you. Your pa hasn't

say THAT for him. H

bo

" cried Emily, winci

her call

't the queerest child

thought he would, wh

lways a pretty man

Emily, suddenly, "if

ather, I will put the

reene s

earth you mean. But t

e for you. You'd bett

that or they won't wan

indeed! Well, h

. She was just a lo

t very friendless.

e had said to Ellen an

nd sh

lp me wash these dish

have something to take

tting curses on peopl

o the bon

nt glance at Ellen's

-tow

d pudgy, " she said.

l

ack! It's awful, wit

unt Ruth takes you sh

at

uth going

e ought to. She's a

and wel

o take me, " said Emily, Delibera

ve the choosing lik

me anywhere. Rememb

rtan

to myself, " cri

o bring YOU up, " mutt

o it, in my opinion.

n she is and the neate

could eat o

off her floor. I don

as the tablecl

hs are clean too, I

wsbury with bow windo

very stylish. It wo

u some sense and do

sense and be done a w

ng lip. "I--I want

behave yourself if yo

ame so much--your pa h

but he just laughed.

t is, Emily Starr, y

for queer

ueer?" dema

you act queer--and at

your age--though that

with other children.

u to school--learning

t listen to me, of co

long in book learning

earn how to be like o

For he's got a big family. But he's not as well off as the rest,

ead of the family. H

wife's delicate--

ld take me, " said Emi

t Laura was somethi

t have no say in it--E

the farm, but he ain't qu

isn't there?" aske

about his mind, chil

r when he was a young

of. Elizabeth was mix

rights of it. I don'

e bothered with you.

my advice and try to p

ehaved--mebbe she'll

dishes. You'd better

he w

e and Saucy Sal

you c

pany for me, "

y, you can't have the

I ain't going to have

he floor's be

b the floor when Fat

gs to be clean. You h

y do you

I to be always scru

pstairs and you'd bet

ut I'm not going to li

lot of thi

advise you to do, " s

ng her duty, "and tha

u a good and respectfu

e foot of the stai

to have anything to

gra

y, but could not thin

ent. She appeale

e ever hear

is like, " said Emily.

ok of yours. He has

t like Him. But I

er's God like, if I ma

stica

a what Father's God

ot to be pos

on, fair as the sun, a

" she said t

o have the last word,

t, " said Ellen, giv

sbyterians and won'

notions. Get

he south room, fee

n the world who loves

ed by the window. But

urrays, who had hated

felt that she detes

ow very big and empty

nteresting any more.

-tree between Adam-and

ty--that the hills be

isted--that the daff

hes were hung all ove

s blowing white young

ad any charm or consol

e believed they nev

I'd be brave, " she w

will. And I WON'T le

--I won't BE a

tle of the afternoon

began to beat. She

d her

r's God--NOT Ellen's G

and not cry bef

low--and voices--loud, Decided voices. The

sleazy thing of

it done in time, tha

u not in black for the

. They're all here--t

d his wife, Your Aunt Eva, and Aunt Ruth--Mrs Dutton

Venetian beads o

Venetian beads with a

a time to be th

ied Emily. "Father g

to show the Murrays th

nse! Come along, I sa

epends on the impress

ownstairs before Ellen

ting around it--and s

een stranger eyes. S

ess; the purple shado

too large and hollow

t--but she would not l

and faced the ordeal

turning her around by

Wall

ut out a cold hand.

k and grim and ugly, With frowning, bristly

s eyes, and carefull

ded then and there th

whisk

" he said coldly--and

d kissed h

nation swept over Emil

d her father and diso

is kisses! Flash-qu

er pocket and wiped

d a disagreeable voice

ro

s if he would like to

en, with a grunt of despair, Pro

t Eva, "

huddled up in a shawl

invalid. She shook ha

Neither

liver, " anno

cle Oliver's appearan

king. She thought she

spite of his bristly

learned Uncle W

ter for a kiss, " he

's idea of being kind

know this, and

s, " she said, lifting

y of them al

and seemed infinitel

ily heard a sniff

She was as fat and ros

ve Emily's cold hand a

ou, dear?"

ily and thawed her a t

antly again. It was A

Ellen said so, and sh

old, grey eyes, The prim, dull brown hair, the shor

tips of her fingers,

em

r Aunt, " said Ellen

with me, " said Emily, distinctly,

scorned hands back on

red child, " she said

was to be

mpunction. Had she ca

r? Perhaps after all

But it was too late

d her

n, Mr James Murray,

who gives up somethi

s to be don

Jimmy, " said that ind

liked him at once wit

, elfish face with a

head in a most un-Mur

, brown eyes were as

ily a hearty handsha

dy across from hi

pussy!"

t him, but her smile w

len had whisked her o

unt Laura who got th

arted an

said, half under her b

sni

ook like anyone else

er delicate features

r, faintly greyed, pi

s her eyes that won

One never quite got

he spoke it was in a

le child, " she said,

r a gent

g and had a narrow es

cry. All that saved

d her on into the co

s your Aunt

zabeth. No doubt abou

ress, so stiff and ric

best. This pleased

her father, at leas

dress. And Aunt Eli

n, austere style, with

ron-grey hair under he

l-blue, were as cold

Under her cool, Appraising glance Emily r

have liked to please

--but she felt she

hands and said nothin

tly what to say. Eli

before King or Governo

ried her through the

nce of this alien, lev

e was anything but me

never have admitted i

Wallace and

the sofa, " o

own, a slight, black, Indomitable little f

. They should see

o the kitchen, thanki

not like Ellen but

e was alone now bef

ve given anything to b

nd a design was formi

-book. It would be i

e knew she could. Sh

one-grey." They were

ntless. Then a pang t

in read what she wrote

she would rather like

escribe Aunt Laura's

o call them "blue" mea

oh, she had it--"wells

thi

the fla

since the dreadful n

She had thought it c

unlikely place and ti

s than those of sens

rage and hope flooded

ight. She lifted her

razenly" Aunt Ruth

them all out in the

m--sweet Aunt Laura,

nd moon-faced Uncle

d detestable

ing child, " said Aunt

colourles

d you expect?" said A

to hold some dire sig

ittle colour she wou

looks like, " said U

il

y, that is plain to

cidedly and d

out me just as if I

ling with indignation

t

Starr either, " said

Byrds--she's got her

es

Byrd's nose, " said Au

to her opinion

her's forehead, "

provi

smile, " said Aunt L

nobody h

shes--hadn't Juliet v

Add

ed the limit of

if I was made up of s

ut indi

her. Perhaps they f

f them were ogres and

ody could think of an

roken by a chuckle fr

f mirth and fre

" he said. "Stand up

rt

said Au

subs

looked a

girl, " she said, "I

ken

oke until they were sp

, " said Emily

k, " Aunt Ruth went o

re trained properly.

ers. We were taught

t

ever had much fun,

e hadn't meant to say

. But she had such an

to F

in a shocked tone. "

as a lit

Emily gravely. Her

l, for she was anxi

et Aunt Ruth looked a

hild was PITYING her-

e of her prim, impecc

y in a Starr. And tha

Elizabeth shou

ene appeared at this

pp

" she whispered to Em

at the

new she could not eat

uncles filed out stif

Laura, who turned at

Before Emily could re

the d

ne in the room that wa

hat had sustained her

ed her and she knew t

end of the parlour, Opened it, and went in

had been a bedroom.

had done the proper t

or of white roses Unc

on the small table at

face for Aunt Ruth's

ng on the glass, and s

f up on the floor and

he casket. They found

ed her up and said, "I'm going to take the

eyes and looked d

ve Mike?"

is

-my big

t Elizabeth in a shock

t in your

r once?" ple

Aunt Elizabeth. "A ca

ompartment. I'm surp

o bed and see that

old night--but let me

ng wit

" said Emily. "He was

aura!" said Aunt Eliza

kly. She carried Emil

her into bed. Emily

asleep she felt someth

ble, snuggling down

, found Mike and broug

and Ellen Greene da

not Laura a Mur