Emily of New Moon

through the blossomy

en Saucy Sal had subsi

remark, more to himself, As it seemed, tha

s not. She always sp

ssary

ottetown and had dinn

father's death, could

use waitress put befo

steriously to the wait

th a plateful of deli

tifully trimmed wi

id Aunt Elizabeth ster

ba

, " whispe

d just then to say mo

f the chicken she had

n matter must

zabeth, "

t Elizabeth, directin

er niece's tr

nderstand, " said Emil

she would be sure to g

id not like the roast

all; and I just et s

because I like

what is put before

olesome food, " said Au

t Elizabeth had not un

unhappy

abeth announced to Aun

e shop

things for the c

me 'the child, '" exc

't you like my name, Aunt Elizabeth? Mother

o whole sets of unde

che

Jimmy, gently kicking

bl

nt that it would be b

" for her when she wa

was rebuking her for

bsided in scarlet conf

to Laura as if s

hat cheap black dres

ough it. It is nonsen

ll. I shall get her a

, and some black-and-

leave the child with

of looking after her

t and fill her up wit

at ice-cream and she

, to eat two saucerfu

h satis

thing for you that Eli

see what is inside of

ness alone knows when

have ice-cream

mmy shook

doesn't like new-fa

ifty years ago, but o

se--candles; in the d

lk in. But, pussy, Ne

l. You'll lik

ries there?" asked

f 'em, " said Cousin

orchard. We grow colu

he fa

she was eight she h

days; yet she hadn't

t linger in old-fash

ere so likely

fairies?" sh

fairy was really-tr

in Jimmy seriously

nk this out the aunts

gain. It was sunset w

that flooded the long

d road and fir-darken

ne. Emily looked

it good. She saw a bi

old trees--no mushroo

that had loved and

of silver water glist

he knew--and a tall, Golden-white church sp

was none of these that

dden glimpse of the d

oof--and right over it, In the opalescent sk

with it as Cousin Ji

ried her into

den bench that was sa

d Aunt Elizabeth ligh

ng, brass candlesticks

igh dresser where the

her a friendly welcom

he lighted them, elvi

the trees outs

a kitchen like this

eiling, with black raf

ides of bacon and bun

d many other things,

imagine. The sanded

s had been scrubbed

funny little bosses, And in front of the st

e corner of the ceili

ck and spookish in th

THING might pop down o

just right, you know.

s. Emily didn't know

not. It was an inte

uld like to describe

en burned--but Emily

n the verge

ra kindly. "These Ju

itting-room--Jimmy ha

e th

perately for self-c

much more cheerful t

gay-striped homespun,

lls were hung with pr

re of wonderful pale-r

ed all over them. The

like. Emily had nev

ll were the friendly g

e in the open stove th

hing warm and rosy-gol

lt reviving interest

aded glass doors clos

ntel! What a funny, Delightful shadow the

ike a negro's side-fac

behind the chintz-lin

Emily's friends wherev

kcase and opened the

he backs of rather po

th a mug of milk and

oatmeal

lizabeth sternly, "sh

e not to meddle with t

y

elonged to everybo

Aunt Elizabeth, cont

Moon books were in a

Emily. We are all so

Eat it and then w

and worried down the

the wallpaper was, wi

nd! Emily wondered i

-yes, she could--ther

airy pattern, suspen

scovered that she pos

y a certain movement

d never describe, sh

er in the air before h

hift it back and forth, To any distance she

nearer. It was one o

oom anywhere to "see

r made the prettiest f

en

at nothing in that q

th, suddenly

elf. She couldn't exp

e like Ellen Greene an

t staring a

say you were, " reto

It gives your face an

o upstairs. You ar

dismay. She had hope

h Aunt Elizabeth see

red not protest.

mbre bedroom where

never be transformed

pped with a tiny swin

be no Emily-in-the-

n curtains, a high bed

at, smothering feathe

low

still, gazin

t undressed?" ask

undress before you

at Emily through her c

clothes, AT ONC

g with anger and sham

while Aunt Elizabeth

unspeakable. It was

lizabeth. Emily felt

ch circumstances. Fa

cted that Aunt Elizabe

Gree

Aunt Elizabeth, turn

d at the shr

to open the window

d at Emily as if the

ng the

d let in the night a

ainly

s had our window op

consumption, " said

s poi

at night but night

t Elizabeth icily,

y go

impossible to sleep

emed to swallow her u

nd not a gleam of lig

eside her, long a

bed with a griffin, "

oing to cry--

ly she strove to kee

t utterly alone and

ien, hostile world a

trange, mysterious, Mournful sound in the a

it frightened her. Oh, For her little bed a

ing friendliness of we

window! She MUST go b

be happy here! But

o father--. A great

then another. It was

h--and chew the inside

nd determination

ying for?" asked

t Elizabeth felt quit

did. She was not us

ith Emily any more tha

nsidered it quite imp

herself in one of the

a poor sleeper, easil

th Murray had heard.

ith her; and when she

o her unwelcome duty

y child was n

u were crying for, E

k, I guess, "

abeth was

to be homesick for,

ant--as New Moon, " so

'm Fathersick, Aunt E

onely when YOU

luntarily remembered

had died--the handsome, Intolerant, autocrat

and had made existenc

nny of the five years

ad behaved impeccably, And wept decorously,

eling of regret follow

did not like the memo

or evok

he will of Providenc

rstand right now that

your appreciation of

rs and repining. What

s to take you in?

ave starved to death

herself lying dead, Looking exactly like

agazines depicting th

mi

would have been sent t

alf-starved, probably

u have come to a good

nd educated

ether like the soun

, "I know it was very good of y

't bother you long, y

arn my own living. Wh

n can be called grow

ut that, " said Aunt E

r been under any neces

equire of you is to b

ourself with becoming

ded terri

ily, suddenly determi

s she had read. "Perh

lizabeth, "--Emily hap

d heard her father use

work it in--"because

vil might

To have a speech lik

ight from that unwelc

and peaceful bed! Was

too paralysed to repl

or, "Emily, NEVE

ly meekly. "But, " sh

"I'll go on

Elizabeth, "I want to

e. I tell you to go to sleep, And I

beth's good night woul

l and sobbed no more, Though the noiseless t

ay so still that Aunt

nd went to s

ut me, " thought Emily, Feeling a sickening

s Mike but she'd be b

I wonder if they g

anded Sal's basket t

to this cat, " and Ji

Perhaps Saucy Sal woul

always went back home

-she pictured hersel

k, starlit roads to t

rches and Adam-and-Eve

ar little cot and the

r and at dawn one cou

he homela

ng?" thought Emily. "

in the

he Wind Woman at the

ur of the June night breeze-

ne?" she whispered, Stretching out her ar

oman. I'm not lones

as afraid it might ne

caped from the bonda

d gloomy canopy and s

the Wind Woman and th

the moths, the brook

nchanted reverie until

undly asleep on the f

ftly and luringly in t

New M