A Mountain Woman by Elia W. (Elia Wilkinson) Peattie
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pletion. The voice, the shoulders, the smile,
the words, the lips, the arms, the whole mind and body, were rounding to maturity. "Why do you never come to church in the morning?" asks Miss Le Baron, wheel- ing around on her piano-stool suddenly. "You are only there at night, with your mother." "I go only on her account," replies David, truthfully. "In the morning I am so tired with the week's work that I rest at home. I ought to go, I know." "Yes, you ought," returns the young woman, gravely. "It doesn't really rest one to lie in bed like that. I've tried it at boarding-school. It was no good whatever." "Should you advise me," asks David, in a confiding tone, "to arise early on Sunday?" The girl blushes a little. "By all means!" she cries, her eyes twinkling, "and -- and come to church. Our morning sermons are really very much better than those in the evening." And she plays a waltz, and what with the music and the warmth of the room |
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