She had her little store of homely philosophies to guide her through life, but she had nothing to buckler her against the thunderbolts of the week that had just passed. What had an honest, hard-working, Presbyterian old maid of Glen St. Mary to do with... Rilla of Ingleside - Page 67by Lucy Maud Montgomery - 1921 - 370 pagesFull view - About this book
| Elizabeth R. Epperly - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 292 pages
...war, and especially over the necessity for the eldest Blythe boy to enlist, is expressed eloquently: 'She had her little store of homely philosophies to...indecent that she should have to be disturbed by it' (50). But she never fails to give the appropriately patriotic response - even forgetting herself on... | |
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