Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906
A Correspondence and a Climax An Adventure on Island Rock At Five O'Clock in the Morning Aunt Susanna's Birthday Celebration Bertie's New Year Between the Hill and the Valley Clorinda's Gifts Cyrilla's Inspiration Dorinda's Desperate Deed Her Own People Ida's New Year Cake In the Old Valley Jane Lavinia Mackereling Out in the Gulf Millicent's Double The Blue North Room The Christmas Surprise At Enderly Road The Dissipation of Miss Ponsonby The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner The Fraser Scholarship The Girl at the Gate The Light on the Big Dipper The Prodigal Brother The Redemption of John Churchill The Schoolmaster's Letter The Story of Uncle Dick The Understanding of Sister Sara The Unforgotten One The Wooing of Bessy Their Girl Josie When Jack and Jill Took a Hand
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your Chinese cook--but I've only time now to say goodbye. You wish me a lovely time at the dance and a full programme, don't you?
Yours sincerely, Sidney Richmond.
Aunt Jane came home presently and carried away her sleeping baby. Sidney said her prayers, went to bed, and slept soundly and serenely.
She mailed her letter the next day, and a month later an answer came. Sidney read it as soon as she left the post office, and walked the rest of the way home as in a nightmare, staring straight ahead of her with wide-open, unseeing brown eyes.
John Lincoln's letter was short, but the pertinent paragraph of it burned itself into Sidney's brain. He wrote:
I am going east for a visit. It is six years since I was home, and it seems like three times six. I shall go by the C.P.R., which passes through Plainfield, and I mean to stop off for a day. You will let me call and see you, won't you? I shall have to take your permission for granted, as I shall be gone before a letter from you ca
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