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Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards. Grandmother
Grandmother
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CHAPTER I. HOW SHE CAME TO THE VILLAGE
CHAPTER II. HOW THE FIRST LINE CAME IN HER FACE
CHAPTER III. HOW SHE PLAYED WITH THE CHILDREN
CHAPTER IV. HOW SHE SANG GRANDFATHER TO SLEEP
CHAPTER V. HOW THE SECOND LINE CAME IN HER FOREHEAD
CHAPTER VI. HOW SHE WENT VISITING
CHAPTER VII. HOW THE LIGHT CAME TO HER
CHAPTER VIII. HOW HER HAIR TURNED WHITE
CHAPTER IX. HOW SHE FOUND PEACE
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Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
The Story of a Life That Never Was Lived
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And while Rachel was raving and weeping, and the good Peaces, who tried to live up to their name, were soothing her with quiet and comfortable words, Grandmother was standing in the middle of the great Merion kitchen, with her hands folded before her in the light pretty way she had, listening to Grandfather; and while she listened she looked to and fro with shy startled glances, and seemed to sway lightly from side to side, as if a breath would move her; she was like a windflower, as Anne Peace said.
“You mustn’t mind Rachel,” Grandfather was saying, as he filled his long pipe and settled himself in his great chair. “She is like the wind that bloweth where it listeth; where it listeth. She has grown up motherless—like yourself, my dear, but with a difference; with a difference; neither your grandmother—I would say, neither my wife nor I have ever governed her enough. She has rather governed me, being of that disposition; of that disposition. Yes! But she is a fine girl, and I hope you will be good friends. This is the kitchen, where we mostly sit in summer, for coolness, you see; Rachel cooks mostly in the back kitchen in summer. That is the sitting-room beyond, which you will find pleasant in cooler weather. That is the pantry door, and that one opens on the cellar stairs. Comfortable, all very comfortable. I hope you will be happy, my dear. Do you think you will be happy?”
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