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Excerpt from The Niece of Esther Lynne
I know you are. That''s just it. You are my aunt, and I''m going to like you tremendously. I feel it all over me. And if I call you Aunt Esther, I shall not feel as though you were my aunt at all. To me it would sound just as though you were a fat Old negress in the kitchen. You know, over yonder, where I lived as a child, it was always the darkies who were uncles and aunts.
Esther Lynne looked for the moment just a little taken aback. She had been brought up in the old-fashioned school. She was an old-world woman, and real modernity was but a name to her, although Sally Hastings sought from time to time to Open her eyes to what was passing in the great world without. But, after all, Sally was herself onlya regular country girl - a bit of a hoyden - picking up odds and ends of slang from her brother, and assimilating new ideas from time to time when paying visits or entertaining guests, but without much greater Opportunities than Esther''s own of really keeping pace with the changing order of the day. Dimly, from the first moment of self-introduction, Esther Lynne felt that this girl had lived and moved in a world altogether different from her own. She came charged, as it were, with a new and Vivid Vitality. She was beautiful to look at; but that was not all.
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I know you are. That''s just it. You are my aunt, and I''m going to like you tremendously. I feel it all over me. And if I call you Aunt Esther, I shall not feel as though you were my aunt at all. To me it would sound just as though you were a fat Old negress in the kitchen. You know, over yonder, where I lived as a child, it was always the darkies who were uncles and aunts.
Esther Lynne looked for the moment just a little taken aback. She had been brought up in the old-fashioned school. She was an old-world woman, and real modernity was but a name to her, although Sally Hastings sought from time to time to Open her eyes to what was passing in the great world without. But, after all, Sally was herself onlya regular country girl - a bit of a hoyden - picking up odds and ends of slang from her brother, and assimilating new ideas from time to time when paying visits or entertaining guests, but without much greater Opportunities than Esther''s own of really keeping pace with the changing order of the day. Dimly, from the first moment of self-introduction, Esther Lynne felt that this girl had lived and moved in a world altogether different from her own. She came charged, as it were, with a new and Vivid Vitality. She was beautiful to look at; but that was not all.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Evelyn Everett-Green
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780331839074
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Page Count - 350
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Contributors
Author
Evelyn Everett-Green
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781331274032
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Page Count - 352
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