| | 1 | Author: | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Emancipation  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | OLD Billy Thomas sat beside the window. He had the weekly
religious newspaper on his knee. He was not reading it. He never
read it. If questioned, he could not have told why he so
apparently cherished it. There was certainly no affectation about
Billy, and least of all affectation with regard to religion. He
was a very good old man, leavened to his own amusement with a
queer, childish mischievousness bordering upon the malicious. This
leaven might not have developed had it not been for his daughter
Esther, who all unwittingly was especially fitted to produce such
development. Now Esther was not at home. She had gone down street
on an errand. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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