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Updated: April 30, 2025
She shuddered. "I have been within an inch of my life, and didn't know it!" "More precisely speaking, you have been within half an inch of being pared alive two hundred and ninety-five tinies." "Cruel, cruel, 'tis of you!" "You have been perfectly safe, nevertheless. My sword never errs." And Troy returned the weapon to the scabbard.
There are about thirty boarders, some of them little bits of things Edith calls them 'tinies' who have been sent home from India where their parents couldn't keep them any longer. About fifty day-scholars attend, from kindergarten age up. "I'm the only American and I can tell you I was well stared at.
That tree there is finished, an' them birds, they are finished, an' that flower by the roadside an' the mountain yonder an' the world an' the stars an' the sun. An' we're mo' than they be, Bud even the tinies' soul, like Kathleen's little one that jes' opened its eyes an' smiled an' died, when its mammy died.
Neither of them knew what the hymn was, but the refrain which came after every verse as if even the tinies were joining in it was quite audible to Luke Raeburn and his daughter. "Through life's long day, and death's dark night, Oh, gentle Jesus, be our light." Erica's breath came in gasps. To be reminded then that life was long and that death was dark!
'George, you should not bring up old misdeeds! She was a harmless old thing. I believe the tinies were very fond of her, but we elders had not much to do with her, only we used to think her horridly particular. 'Does that mean conscientious? asked her father. 'Perhaps it does; and though I was rather a goose then, I really believe she was very kind, and did not want to be tiresome.
In the life together of these two there had, from the very start, been a queer understanding as to who should decide what. It had become by now so much a matter of instinct that combative consultations, which bulk so large in married lives, had no place in theirs. A frowning tremor passed over her face. "I suppose they must. Derek is out. Leave it to me, Tod, and take the tinies into the orchard."
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