So she sat right down and wrote again , and this was the letter Jake Wiggins brought to the Big Half Moon . It was a beautiful letter . I loved Aunt Esther before I ever saw her , just from that letter . Next day Father got Jake to take his place for a few days , and he left Claude and me over on the mainland while he went to see Aunt Esther . When he came back he brought Aunt Esther and Dick and Mimi with him , and they have been here ever since . You do n't know how splendid it is ! Aunt Esther is such a dear , and Dick and Mimi are too jolly for words . They love the Big Half Moon as well as Claude and I do , and Dick makes a perfectly elegant shipwrecked mariner . But the best of it all is that we have relations now ! The Bride Roses Miss Corona awoke that June morning with a sigh , the cause of which she was at first too sleepy to understand . Then it all came over her with a little sickening rush ; she had fallen asleep with tear-wet lashes the night before on account of it . This was Juliet Gordon 's wedding day , and she , Miss Corona , could not go to the wedding and was not even invited , all because of the Quarrel , a generation old , and so chronic and bitter and terrible that it always presented itself to Miss Corona 's mental vision as spelled with a capital . Well might Miss Corona hate it . It had shut her up into a lonely life for long years . Juliet Gordon and Juliet 's father , Meredith Gordon , were the only relations Miss Corona had in the world , and the old family feud divided them by a gulf which now seemed impassable . Miss Corona turned over on her pillows , lifted one corner of the white window-blind and peeped out . Below her a river of early sunshine was flowing through the garden , and the far-away slopes were translucent green in their splendour of young day , with gauzy , uncertain mists lingering , spiritlike , in their intervales . A bird , his sleek plumage iridescent in the sunlight , was perched on the big chestnut bough that ran squarely across the window , singing as if his heart would burst with melody and the joy of his tiny life . No bride could have wished anything fairer for her day of days , and Miss Corona dropped back on her pillows with another gentle sigh . `` I 'm so glad that the dear child has a fine day to be married , '' she said .
Juliet Gordon was always `` dear child '' to Miss Corona , although the two had never spoken XXXXX each other in their lives .
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