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On the Church Steps

On the Church Steps

Hallowell, Sarah C.

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1985386518
ISBN13: 9781985386518
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 15 2018
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What a picture she was as she sat there, my own Bessie! and what a strange place it was to rest on, those church steps! Behind us lay the Woolsey woods, with their wooing fragrance of pine and soft rushes of scented air; and the lakes were in the distance, lying very calm in the cloud-shadows and seeming to wait for us to come. But to-day Bessie would nothing of lakes or ledges: she would sit on the church steps. In front of us, straight to the gate, ran a stiff little walk of white pebbles, hard and harsh as some bygone creed. Think of little bare feet coming up here, Bessie! I said with a shiver. It is too hard. And every carriage that comes up the hill sees us. And why shouldn't they see us? said my lady, turning full upon me. I am not ashamed to be here. Churches should always have soft walks of turf; and lovers, I would fain have added, should have naught but whispering leaves about them. But Bessie cut me short in her imperious way: But we are not lovers this morning: at least, with a half-relenting look at my rueful face, we are very good friends, and I choose to sit here to show people that we are.

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