[The Golden Road by Lucy Maud Montgomery]@TWC D-Link bookThe Golden Road CHAPTER XXI 10/24
Face, arms and feet were bare--and face, arms and feet were liberally powdered with FLOUR.
Certainly no one who saw Peg that night could ever forget the apparition. Peg's black eyes, in which shone a more than usually wild and fitful light, roved scrutinizingly over the church, then settled on our pew. "She's coming here," whispered Felicity in horror.
"Can't we spread out and make her think the pew is full ?" But the manoeuvre was too late.
The only result was that Felicity and the Story Girl in moving over left a vacant space between them and Peg promptly plumped down in it. "Well, I'm here," she remarked aloud.
"I did say once I'd never darken the door of Carlisle church again, but what that boy there"-- nodding at Peter--"said last winter set me thinking, and I concluded maybe I'd better come once in a while, to be on the safe side." Those poor girls were in an agony.
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