The Gates Ajar

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The Gates Ajar

The Gates Ajar

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Published by Good Press, 2019

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“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 Phœbe! 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 not have taken notice enough of her lately. She has done her honest best to comfort me, and she loved Roy, too.

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