Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery
Author:L. M. Montgomery
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin
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Rilla read her first love-letter in her Rainbow Valley fir-shadowed nook, and a girlâs first love-letter, whatever blasé, older people may think of it, is an event of tremendous importance in the teens. After Kennethâs regiment had left Kingsport there came a fortnight of dully-aching anxiety and when the congregation sang in Church on Sunday evenings,
âOh, hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in peril on the sea,â
Rillaâs voice always failed her, for with the words came a horribly vivid mind picture of a submarined ship sinking beneath pitiless waves amid the struggles and cries of drowning men. Then word came that Kennethâs regiment had arrived safely in England; and now, at last, here was his letter. It began with something that made Rilla supremely happy for the moment and ended with a paragraph that crimsoned her cheeks with the wonder and thrill and delight of it. Between beginning and ending the letter was just such a jolly, newsy epistle as Ken might have written to anyone; but for the sake of that beginning and ending Rilla slept with the letter under her pillow for weeks, sometimes waking in the night to slip her fingers under and just touch it, and looked with secret pity on other girls whose sweethearts could never have written them anything half so wonderful and exquisite. Kenneth was not the son of a famous novelist for nothing. He âhad a wayâ of expressing things in a few poignant, significant words that seemed to suggest far more than they uttered, and never grew stale or flat or foolish with ever so many scores of readings. Rilla went home from Rainbow Valley as if she flew rather than walked.
But such moments of uplift were rare that autumn. To be sure, there was one day in September when great news came of a big Allied victory in the West and Susan ran out to hoist the flagâthe first time she had hoisted it since the Russian line broke and the last time she was to hoist it for many dismal moons.
âLikely the Big Push has begun at last, Mrs. Dr. dear,â she exclaimed, âand we will soon see the finish of the Huns. Our boys will be home by Christmas now. Hurrah!â
Susan was ashamed of herself for hurrahing the minute she had done it, and apologized meekly for such an outburst of juvenility. âBut indeed, Mrs. Dr. dear, this good news has gone to my head after this awful summer of Russian slumps and Gallipoli setbacks.â
âGood news!â said Miss Oliver bitterly. âI wonder if the women whose men have been killed for it will call it good news. Just because our own men are not on that part of the front we are rejoicing as if the victory had cost no lives.â
âNow, Miss Oliver dear, do not take that view of it,â deprecated Susan. âWe have not had much to rejoice over of late and yet men were being killed just the same. Do not let yourself slump like poor Cousin Sophia.
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