Phoebe

Phœbe

The train was already moving. Phbe, with all the solemnity of her fourteen years, puckered her brows over the slip of yellow paper, winked her long lashes at it reflectively, and pursed a troubled mouth. How strange that dear Mother should leave the New York apartment in mid-morning, with the usual gay kiss that meant short separation; and then in that same hour should send this messagethis commandwhich was to start Phbe away from the great city, where all of her short life had been spent, toward that smaller city where lived the Grandmother she had never seen, and the two Unclesone a Judge and the other a 12clergymanwho, though her fathers own brothers, were yet strangers to their only niece! Somehow, without having to be told, Phbe had always understood that Mother did not like Grandma, or the Uncles, judicial and ecclesiastic. Then why was Mother, without a real farewell, and without motherly preparation in the matter of dress, and with no explanations, sending Phbe to those paternal relations? Out of the gloom and clangor of the great station, the train was now fast winding its way, past lights that burned, Phbe thought, like those in the big basement of the apartment house where she had lived so long. Now the coach was leaving one pair of rails for a new pairchanging direction with a sharp clicking of the wheels and a heavy swaying of the huge cars body. And now the line of coaches was straightening itself to take, as Phbe knew, that long plunge under the southward flowing Hudson. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 63642
Author: Gates, Eleanor
Release Date: Nov 5, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English