The Gates Ajar
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217890144
Paperback|9780217890144
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. March 7. I have taken out my book, and am going to write again. But there is an excellent reason. I have something else than myself to write about. This morning Phoebe persuaded me to walk down to the office, To keep up my spirits and get some salt pork. She brought my things and put them on me while I was hesitating; tied my victorine and buttoned my gloves; warmed my boots, and fussed about me as if I had been a baby. It did me good to be taken care of, and I thanked her softly; a little more softly than I am apt to speak to Phoebe. Bless your soul, my dear she said, winking briskly, I don't want no thanks. It's thanks enough jest to see one of your old looks comin' over you for a spell, sence? She knocked over a chair with her broom, and left her sentence unfinished. Phoebe hasalways had a queer, clinging, superior sort of love for us both. She dandled us on her knees, and made all our rag-dolls, and carried us through measles and mumps and the rest. Then mother's early death threw all the care upon her. I believe that in her secret heart she considers me more her child than her mistress. It cost a great many battles to become established as Miss Mary. I should like to know, she would say, throwing back her great, square shoulders and towering up in front of me, ? I should like to know if you s'pose I 'm a goin' to ' Miss' anybody that I 've trotted to Bamberry Cross as many times as I have you, Mary Cabot Catch me I remember how she would insist on calling me her baby after I was in long dresses, and that it mortified me cruelly once when Meta Tripp was here to tea with some Boston cousins. Poor, good Phoebe Her rough love seems worth more to me, now that it is all I have left me in the world. It occurs to me that I may...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217890144 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217890148 |
| Weight | 0.39 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.27 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 112 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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