Jimmy Frewen walked home with Nellie Bowan last night from prayer-meeting and HER ONLY FOURTEEN . Do n't you think it horrid BEGINNING SO YOUNG ? YOU AND ME would NEVER do anything like that till we were GROWN UP , would we ? Willy Fraser looks SO LONESOME in school these days . I must stop for ma says I waste FAR TOO MUCH TIME writing letters . Tell Judy ALL THE NEWS for me . `` Your OWN TRUE FRIEND , `` SARA RAY . `` P.S. Oh I DO hope Peter will get better . Ma is going to get me a new brown dress for the winter . `` S. R. '' When evening came we went to our seats under the whispering , sighing fir trees . It was a beautiful night -- clear , windless , frosty . Some one galloped down the road on horseback , lustily singing a comic song . How dared he ? We felt that it was an insult to our wretchedness . If Peter were going to -- going to -- well , if anything happened to Peter , we felt so miserably sure that the music of life would be stilled for us for ever . How could any one in the world be happy when we were so unhappy ? Presently Aunt Olivia came down the long twilight arcade . Her bright hair was uncovered and she looked slim and queen-like in her light dress . We thought Aunt Olivia very pretty then . Looking back from a mature standpoint I realize that she must have been an unusually beautiful woman ; and she looked her prettiest as she stood under the swaying boughs in the last faint light of the autumn dusk and smiled down at our woebegone faces .
`` Dear , sorrowful little people , I bring you glad tidings XXXXX great joy , '' she said .
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