“Mamma Sara!” She was aghast because the attic was so bare and ugly and seemed so far away from all the world. There she found two doors near each other, and opening one, she saw her beloved Sara standing upon an old table and looking out of a window. She talked to her small companions and hung about the elder girls and listened when they were gossiping and acting upon certain information they had unconsciously let drop, she started late one afternoon on a voyage of discovery, climbing stairs she had never known the existence of, until she reached the attic floor. If Sara would not tell her where she lived, she would find out in some other way. If the children were not attentive, if they talked, if they were restless, it was she who would be reproved.īut Lottie was a determined little person. She had found out already that she was to be held accountable for everything which was objected to. She will be angry with me for letting you whisper.” “The new girl sleeps in your room, and it isn’t pretty any more.” “Beggars have nowhere to live,” she said courageously. “I don’t want you to be as poor as a beggar.” “Are you as poor as a beggar?” She thrust a fat hand into the slim one and opened round, tearful eyes. “Are you very poor now, Sara?” she had asked confidentially the first morning her friend took charge of the small French class.

At seven mysteries must be made very clear if one is to understand them. Lottie’s chief difficulty was that Sara said so little when one asked her questions. There had been much whispering among the little ones when it had been discovered that Sara no longer lived in the rooms in which Emily had so long sat in state. She had heard it rumored that strange things had happened to Sara, but she could not understand why she looked different-why she wore an old black frock and came into the schoolroom only to teach instead of to sit in her place of honor and learn lessons herself.

She was a small thing and did not know what adversity meant, and was much bewildered by the alteration she saw in her young adopted mother. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser.

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