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CHAPTER VII The Book of Yesterday
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THAT first Saturday and Sunday at New Moon always stood out in Emily’s memory as a very wonderful time, so crowded was it with new and generally delightful1 impressions. If it be true that we “count time by heart throbs” Emily lived two years in it instead of two days. Everything was fascinating from the moment she came down the long, polished staircase into the square hall that was filled with a soft, rosy2 light coming through the red glass panes3 of the front door. Emily gazed through the panes delightedly. What a strange, fascinating, red world she beheld4, with a weird5 red sky that looked, she thought, as if it belonged to the Day of Judgment6.
There was a certain charm about the old house which Emily felt keenly and responded to, although she was too young to understand it. It was a house which aforetime had had vivid brides and mothers and wives, and the atmosphere of their loves and lives still hung around it, not yet banished7 by the old-maidishness of the régime of Elizabeth and Laura.
“Why—I’m going to love New Moon,” thought Emily, quite amazed at the idea.
Aunt Laura was setting the breakfast table in the kitchen, which seemed quite bright and jolly in the glow of morning sunshine. Even the black hole in the ceiling
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had ceased to be spookish and become only a commonplace entrance to the kitchen loft8. And on the red-sandstone doorstep Saucy9 Sal was sitting, preening10 her fur as contentedly
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WHIMS
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虚妄,禅病 | |
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