just another day....

Today was the first real "school day" for us. Being graduated myself, I have taken over the responsibility of teaching my younger sister - a freshman this year. We had a bit of a late start this morning, but all is completed. I've been inside too much on this beautiful day, so I think I'm going to take a walk to lover's lane and write a letter. Below is an excerpt from Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery - chapter 1

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  "It was so long since Emily had been out for a walk that she was half crazy with the joy of it. The winter had been so stormy and the snow so deep that she was never allowed out; April had been a month of rain and wind; so on this May evening she felt like a released prisoner. Where should she go? Down the brook - or over the fields to the spruce barrens? Emily chose the latter.

She loved the spruce barrens, away at the further end of the long, sloping pasture. That was a place where magic was made. She came more fully into her fairy birthright there than in any other place. Nobody who saw Emily skimming over the bare field would have envied her. She was little and pale and poorly clad; sometimes she shivered in her thin jacket; yet a queen might have gladly given a crown for her visions- her dreams of wonder."

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