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You will not make me believe such ponderous fibs," I added, throwing my hat and parasol wearily on the bed. "You are quite too cute, Amey," she answered, rising slowly and taking my arm affectionately, "in fact you are a genius my dear," she added in a pompous tone. "So they all tell me," I retorted quietly, "and yet I feel very much like other people."
"I hope you won't feel like a captive bird in this little cage of ours," cousin Bessie remarked with a quiet smile the morning after my arrival. "I offered it only as a shelter, Amey, you know, until you can make yourself more comfortable elsewhere." I looked at her reproachfully and answered without hesitation: "I am glad you do not specify my time.
Dinner was over at last, and I glided away from the happy circle to the quietude of my own quarters I lit the lamp, and seating myself comfortably in a rocking chair, tore open my friend's letter, and read as follows: "My dearest Amey
"And," he added, in a slower and more directly communicative tone, as he disengaged his hand from mine and leaned his arm on the back of the lounge behind me, "I have decided to send you to a first-rate school, Amey, where you will have a chance to perfect yourself in every way; do you think you will like to go away to school?" he asked, so timidly that one would have thought my opinion on the matter could have some little value.
"It is the only time I could ever feel that I was your friend, Amey," he said, with a half melancholy voice, "even when you were a little child, you never took much notice of me, unless something had gone wrong." I liked this allusion to the past, it was timely, and brought out our present relationship clearly and comfortably.
Perhaps there was not another girl among the three hundred boarders of Notre Dame Abbey, that had such little reason to be home-sick as Amey Hampden; and yet God help us! into what strange moods we are prone to fall!
With the advent of this undesirable relative into our home is associated, for me, the remembrance of all such impatient entreaties as, "Amey, bring your toys here to baby Amey, come and sing to baby Amey, come and rock baby to sleep" and I, though striving to encourage a good intention and a hopeful outlook, finally succumbed to the very human perversity of my soul, and when every atom of ordinary endurance had given out, I realized that I had ended by loathing the very name, or sight, or idea of the unwelcome baby.
I hope when we meet again, I will have no more to reproach you with in this respect than you will have against me. I could not say more than this." "Oh, yes you could," he faltered, laying his other hand over my captive fingers, "but it is better not, my Amey, at least never mind, I was forgetting good-bye once again, and God bless you."
And that will be you, my Amey. Perhaps it will comfort you then, to remember that I died in peace and contentment after all for my poor prayer has been heard in heaven.
"Just throw your becoming wearables anywhere there and come and sit down for a chat." I did as she told me, and a moment later we were both settled luxuriously before the glowing embers ready for mutual entertainment. "Did you think I was crazy, Amey, when you received my note this morning?" Alice asked, drawing the vagrant folds of her soft wrapper about her.
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