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By AnonymElizabeth George Speare
After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her...In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.
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By AnonymElizabeth George Speare
All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.
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By AnonymElizabeth George Speare
From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.
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By AnonymElizabeth George Speare
I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it held for me, but I must go on believing so. Every hope of the future is meaningless unless I have faith that you and I will share it together.
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By AnonymElizabeth George Speare
She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.
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By AnonymElizabeth George Speare
The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him
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By AnonymElizabeth George Speare
Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.
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By AnonymElizabeth George Speare
What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.
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By AnonymElizabeth George Speare
Who would guess," he teased, "that I'd ever see you on a rooftop with straw in your hair?" Kit giggled. "Are you saying I've turned into a crow?" "Not exactly." His eyes were intensely blue with merriment. "I can still see the green feathers if I look hard enough. But they've done their best to make you into a sparrow, haven't they?
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By AnonymElizabeth George Speare
Beside the plain blue homespun and white linen which modestly clothed Aunt Rachel and Judith, Kit’s flowered silk gave her the look of some vivid tropical bird lighted by mistake on a strange shore.
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By AnonymElizabeth George Speare
For Prudence was an entirely different child from the woebegone shrinking creature who had stood in the roadway outside the school. The tight little bud that was the real Prudence had steadily opened its petals in the sunshine of Kit’s friendship and Hannah’s gentle affection.
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By AnonymElizabeth George Speare
Hannah's magic cure for every ill," he teased. "Blueberry cake and a kitten.
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By AnonymElizabeth George Speare
Have you noticed her name?" Kit leaned sideways to see the letters painted jauntily on the transom. "The WITCH! How did you dare? Does Hannah know?" "Oh, she's not named after Hannah. I hadn't gone ten miles down the river that day before I knew I'd left the real witch behind.
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By AnonymElizabeth George Speare
Miriam felt astonished at herself. It was a new thing for her to step out so independently. Somehow, in the past month a tough little root of determination had been growing in her. Whether it was strong enough to support the desperate plan she had undertaken she would soon find out.
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By AnonymElizabeth George Speare
Răspunsul e în inima ta,spuse ea blând.Matale poți să-l auzi întotdeauna ,dacă stai să-l asculți .
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By AnonymElizabeth George Speare
Tell them the truth if you like," responded Kit airily, knowing quite well that Judith, for all her disapproval, would never give her away. The common bond of just being young together in that household was strong enough for that.
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