Small Beauties by Elvira Woodruff

Author:Elvira Woodruff [Woodruff, Elvira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-54670-8
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2014-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

In the afternoons, Darcy and Granny took to saying their prayers together under the shade of the mulberry tree. While Granny fingered her worn wooden rosary beads, Darcy would finger the bumps along her hem. They prayed for food and for courage. And they prayed that the agent would not return.

But this last prayer went unanswered, for at the end of the month the Crown’s agent was again at their door. And this time he was not alone. With him were men with hooks, hammers, and a torch!

Darcy trembled to hear the agent’s angry voice shouting through the half door.

“Patrick O’Hara, I’m here to serve you notice. You and yours are evicted from this place, from this day forward. Take what you will from your house now, for it’s coming down.

With her own heart breaking, Darcy watched helplessly as Granny’s rosary beads fell from the mantel and broke on the floor!

“Heaven protect us! They’ve set the roof afire!” Granddad cried as the sound of burning thatch crackled in their ears overhead. In a panic, everyone rushed for the only door. Amid the smoke and screams, Darcy reached down and scooped up one small bead from the floor.

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