That Camden Summer by LAVYRLE SPENCER

Author:LAVYRLE SPENCER
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jove
Published: 2001-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

‘‘Lo! comes the evening, purply soft

To lift the glowing stars aloft.’’

Gabriel glanced over.

‘‘Who wrote that?’’

‘‘I did.’’

He pondered a moment. ‘‘You Jewetts are really something when it comes to verses. You always manage to leave me in the dust.’’

‘‘Leave you in the dust?’’

‘‘You know so much that I don’t know, Roberta.’’

‘‘Perhaps I do, but I cannot build a porch.’’

Sometimes she could really put him at ease, this woman in the wrinkled dress and tumbledown hair. He’d come to prize spending time with her, and he was beginning to admit it wasn’t only because of the children. ‘‘I hadn’t thought of that,’’ he said. Now that he did, however, he felt less ignorant. ‘‘You write any more of that poem?’’

‘‘No, but I can if you want me to.’’

‘‘Just like that?’’

She shrugged as if the talent were common.

‘‘You mean you could just spout lines that rhyme, without thinking for two hours and looking in books and crossing off mistakes?’’

‘‘I always liked poetry and music and drama. That’s where my girls get it.’’

‘‘So make up some more.’’

She squinted one eye at the rising moon. Her lips moved soundlessly for a while before she caught the line . . .

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