It was a cluster of very conscious-looking little girls that assembled one evening in the attic room,
chosen on account of its remoteness from intruders (for we did not admit even the family as a public, the writers themselves were the only audience), to listen to the reading of our first paper. We took Saturday evening, because that was longer than the other workday evenings, the mills being closed earlier. Such guessing and wondering and admiring as we had! But nobody would acknowledge her own work, for that would have spoiled the pleasure. Only there were certain wise hints and maxims that...
It was a cluster of very conscious-looking little girls that assembled one evening in the attic room,
chosen on account of its remoteness from intruders (for we did not admit even the family as a public, the writers themselves were the only audience), to listen to the reading of our first paper. We took Saturday evening, because that was longer than the other workday evenings, the mills being closed earlier. Such guessing and wondering and admiring as we had! But nobody would acknowledge her own work, for that would have spoiled the pleasure. Only there were certain wise hints and maxims that...
With books, and work, and healthful play, May my first years be passed,
That I may give, for every day, Some good account at last." I knew all about the books and the play; but the work,--how should I ever learn to do it? My father had always strongly emphasized his wish that all his children, girls as well as boys, should have some independent means of self-support by the labor of their hands; that every one should, as was the general custom, "learn a trade." Tailor's work--the finishing of men's outside garments--was the "trade learned most frequently...
With books, and work, and healthful play, May my first years be passed,
That I may give, for every day, Some good account at last." I knew all about the books and the play; but the work,--how should I ever learn to do it? My father had always strongly emphasized his wish that all his children, girls as well as boys, should have some independent means of self-support by the labor of their hands; that every one should, as was the general custom, "learn a trade." Tailor's work--the finishing of men's outside garments--was the "trade learned most frequently...
Oh, roosters crow in the night, sometimes, when you are asleep."
en my younger brother would break in with a shout of delight at my stupidity:-- "I'll tell you when, goosie!-- 'The next day after never; When the dead ducks fly over the river.'" But this must have been when I was very small; for I remember thinking that "the next day after never" would come some time, in millions of years, perhaps. And how queer it would be to see dead ducks flying through the air! Witches were seldom spoken of in the presence of us children. We sometimes ove...
Oh, roosters crow in the night, sometimes, when you are asleep."
en my younger brother would break in with a shout of delight at my stupidity:-- "I'll tell you when, goosie!-- 'The next day after never; When the dead ducks fly over the river.'" But this must have been when I was very small; for I remember thinking that "the next day after never" would come some time, in millions of years, perhaps. And how queer it would be to see dead ducks flying through the air! Witches were seldom spoken of in the presence of us children. We sometimes ove...
Ay," she said, with a little nod of her head, "that I know--that I am yourself; and '
'tis because of this that one of us cannot be proud with the other, for there is no other, there is only one. And I am wrong to say, 'Let me not rule,' for 'tis as if I said, 'You must not rule.' I meant surely, 'God give me strength to be as noble in ruling as our love should make me.' But just as one tree is a beech and one an oak, just as the grass stirs when the summer wind blows over it, so a woman is a woman, and 'tis her nature to find her j...
Ay," she said, with a little nod of her head, "that I know--that I am yourself; and '
'tis because of this that one of us cannot be proud with the other, for there is no other, there is only one. And I am wrong to say, 'Let me not rule,' for 'tis as if I said, 'You must not rule.' I meant surely, 'God give me strength to be as noble in ruling as our love should make me.' But just as one tree is a beech and one an oak, just as the grass stirs when the summer wind blows over it, so a woman is a woman, and 'tis her nature to find her j...
Not quite a woman," said the beautiful creature, standing at her full great height, and smiling down at this blue
and white piece of frailty with the flashing splendour of her eyes. "Not quite a woman," cried two wits at once. "A goddess rather--an Olympian goddess." The languisher could not endure comparisons which so seemed to disparage her ethereal charms. She lifted the weapon with a great effort, which showed the slimness of her delicate fair wrist and the sweet tracery of blue veins upon it. "Nay," she said lispingly, "it needs the muscle of a great man to lift it. I could not hold it--much less be...
Not quite a woman," said the beautiful creature, standing at her full great height, and smiling down at this blue
and white piece of frailty with the flashing splendour of her eyes. "Not quite a woman," cried two wits at once. "A goddess rather--an Olympian goddess." The languisher could not endure comparisons which so seemed to disparage her ethereal charms. She lifted the weapon with a great effort, which showed the slimness of her delicate fair wrist and the sweet tracery of blue veins upon it. "Nay," she said lispingly, "it needs the muscle of a great man to lift it. I could not hold it--much less be...
