Emily loved them both, but Mike was her favourite.
Emily stood and looked at it with clasped hands and her littleblack head upturned.
It seemed to be Emilysonly physical inheritance from her mother.
And dont go pestering your pa about what Ivetold
you, mind that.
Your Uncle Wallace might, seeing as hereckons
himself the head of the family.
Emily loved them both, but Mike was her
favourite.
Ive been at your pa for months to tell you, but
heskept putting it off and off. Emily didnt know exactly what Father
meant.
I dont know why she doesnt, she complained to Ellen
Greene. She has the brain of a hen and the sensibility ofa cow.
But she worried considerably because Saucy Sal
didnt have kittens.
As her motherspeople deal with her, so may God deal
with them, he murmuredbrokenly.
If I was God I wouldnt let things like this happen,
she said.
After supper Emily went in and found that her
father had fallenasleep. Emily stood and looked at it with clasped hands and her
littleblack head upturned.
You aint the firstchild thats been left an orphan
and you wont be the last. Theyre well offand theyll provide for you. Yet therewas a
sort of weird beauty about her that appealed to Emily. Douglas Starr took her hand
and held it tightly.
She only wished she hadsomebody to talk to. Emily
slipped out of bed and got on her fathers knee. We do NOT keep any eBooks in
compliance with a particularpaper edition.
Emily stood and looked at it with clasped hands and
her littleblack head upturned. Well, her tablecloths are clean too, I
reckon.
When you were bornI wanted to call you Juliet,
too.
I dont know why she doesnt, she complained to Ellen
Greene. Do you EVER get out of that room, Iwonder.
Come you in now, out of the damp, and Illgive you a
cooky fore you go to bed.
And dont go pestering your pa about what Ivetold
you, mind that. But youdidnt seem to find it hard, for you were a good wee kidlet,
Emily.
Well, youve got to behave yourself if you want
people to likeyou. She was a redoubtablefighter, and strange cats were vanquished in
one round.
The Murrays have certain traditions and they live
up to them verystrictly.
I dont think I want Aunt Ruth to take me, said
Emily,deliberately, after a moments reflection. You ought to bethankful to get a
home anywhere.
She lay there cold and tearless and motionless when
her father cameinto the room.