The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

138 The Gates Ajar. and little brooks, and fountains of just the right sort; the fountains of this world don't please me generally. I want a little brook to sit and sing to Faith by. 0, I forgot! she will be a large girl probably, won't she? " " Never too large to like to hear your mother sing, will you, Faith? " "0 no," said Faith, who bobbed in and out again like a canary, just then,-" not unless I'm dreadful big, with long dresses and a waterfall, you know. I s'pose, maybe, I'd have to have little girls myself to sing to, then. I hope they'11 behave better'n Mary Ann does. She's lost her other arm, and all her sawdust is just running out. Besides, Kitty thought she was a mouse, and ran down cellar with her, and she's all shooken up, somehow. She don't look very pretty." " Flowers, too," her mother went on, after the interruption. "Not all amaranth and asphodel, but of variety and color and beauty unimagined; glorified lilies of the valley, heavenly tea-rose buds, and spiritual harebells among them. 0, how your poor mother used to say, -you know flowers were her poetry, - coming in weak and worn from her garden in the early part of her sickness, hands and lap and

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911.
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