The Shell of Sense: Collected Ghost Stories of Olivia Howard Dunbar by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Author:Jessica Amanda Salmonson [Salmonson, Jessica Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B000I3LE4U
Published: 2019-01-30T16:30:13+00:00

THE DREAM- BABY

about it, if there was, Heaven only knows! ” Miss Agatha had remarked in a candid outburst that quite wounded sensitive Miss Emily.

One day Agatha came in from a meeting of the “Municipal Government Club” which she had joined on the assurance of its president that it would “enrich her life,”

and found Emily sedulously erasing the evidence of tears. Suspicion flew like an arrow and bit the mark.

“I suppose it’s that baby again,” groaned Agatha.

‘He hasn’t done anything,”’ sobbed Emily, in superfluous defence of the dream-baby. “I suppose it’s his not really belonging to me that I mind so much. And then, I might as well tell you, Agatha, that the worst of it isthat nobody ever had a baby before without being able to make clothes for it!” Here the poor lady ‘s grief quite overcame her.

“Hush, hush, dear!”

“I want to sew him a litrle dress more than I want anything, Agatha! And you know how beautifully I could make it. I have thought how I should have it cut square so as to show the exquisite back of his neck.

You were telling me yesterday how I loved to kiss him there … . Agatha!”-Emily was very timid-” what should you think if I bought,-well, perhaps not a dress, but some flannel and made him a litrle jacket, just to please myself?”

“Emily, I beg of you never to talk in this way again. I blame myself beyond all telling. Please, dear, let us try to forget it all!”

The sobbing figure seemed not to hear.

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