Aunt Crete's Emancipation

Aunt Crete's Emancipation

Lucretia was short and dumpy, with the comfortable, patient look of the maiden aunt that knows she is indispensable because she will meekly take all the burdens that no one else wants to bear. Her sister could easily look over her head into the hall, and her gaze was penetrative and alert. Luella, a rather stout young woman in stylish attire, with her mothers keen features unsoftened by sentiment, advanced, irreverently tearing open her mothers telegram and reading it as she came. It was one of the family grievances that Luella was stout like her aunt instead of tall and slender like her mother. The aunt always felt secretly that they somehow blamed her for being of that type. It makes one so hard to fit, Luellas mother remarked frequently, and adding with a disparaging glance at her sisters dumpy form, So impossible! At such times the aunt always wrinkled up her pleasant little forehead into a V upside down, and trotted off to her kitchen, or her buttonholes, or whatever was the present task, sighing helplessly. She tried to be the best that she could always; but one couldnt help ones figure, especially when one was partly dependent on ones family for support, and dressmakers and tailors took so much money. It was bad enough to have one stout figure to fit in the family without two; and the aunt always[13] felt called upon to have as little dressmaking done as possible, in order that Luellas figure might be improved from the slender treasury. Clothes do make a big difference, she reflected. And sometimes when she was all alone in the twilight, and there was really nothing that her alert conscience could possibly put her hand to doing for the moment, she amused herself by thinking what kind of dress she would buy, and who should make it, if she should suddenly attain a fortune. But this was a harmless amusement, inasmuch as she never let it make her discontented with her lot, or ruffle her placid brow for an instant. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 47525
Author: Hill, Grace Livingston
Release Date: Dec 4, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Atwood, Clara E