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Updated: June 29, 2025
The silence of a life! The wind hushed into a moment's calm while the words turned over in her heart. The branches of a cherry-tree, close under her sight, dropped lifelessly; a homesick bird gave a little, still, mournful chirp in the dark. Sharley gasped. "It's all because I shook Moppet! That's it. Because I shook Moppet this morning. He used to like me, yes, he did.
The reason why we found this verse was because I wanted to show Sharley and Chris and Ernest that there the same word is used about the earth as in the verse in Genesis of which we had just been speaking.
After mamma died I don't know what we should have done two girls left alone in this old house if it hadn't been for Aunt Sharley. She petted us, she protected us, she nursed us when we were sick. Why, Harvey, she couldn't have been more loyal or more devoted or more self-sacrificing than she has been through all these years while we were growing up.
Besides, Sharley, like the rest of them, had not thought as far as that. Then ah then, what toil would not be play-day for the sake of Halcombe Dike? what weariness and wear could be too great, what pain too keen, if they could bear it together? O, you mothers! do you not see that this makes "a' the difference"? You have strength that your daughter knows not of. She gropes and cuts her way alone.
'You hurt yourself a good deal if you run too fast down the paths, I said. 'The stones are so sharp. Sharley laughed. 'You speak from experience, she said. 'That grass bank would be lovely for tobogganing. 'I don't know what that is, I replied. 'We'll show you if you come to see us at home, she said. 'But I suppose I'd better not try anything like that to-day.
"You just ought to give Aunt Sharley a piece of your mind about the way she behaves. And the worst of it is she gets worse all the time. Don't you think you're the only one she picks on.
The name of the thing would be worth a good deal to me if I succeeded. It would give me a start, and " "Ough!" exclaimed Sharley. She had been sitting at his feet, with her face raised, and red eyes forgotten, when, splash! an icy stream of water came into her eyes, into her mouth, down her neck, up her sleeves. She gasped, and stood drenched.
It was Aunt Sharley who had dressed them for their first real party not a play-party, as the saying went down our way, but a regular dancing party, corresponding to a début in some more ostentatious and less favoured communities.
The coast was clear now, and happy Sharley, with bright cheeks, took her little fall hat that she was trimming, and sat down on the front doorsteps; sat there to wait and watch, and hope and dream and flutter, and sat in vain.
An old woman with thirteen bundles climbed out laboriously. Two small boys turned somersaults from the platform. Sharley strained her wistful eyes till they ached. There was nobody else. Sharley was very young, and very much disappointed, and she cried. The glory had died from the skies. The world had gone out.
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