Lucy M Montgomery

Emily of New Moon Lucy M Montgomery

THE house in the hollow was "a mile from anywhere"-so Maywood people said. Itwas situated in a grassy little dale, looking as if it had never been built like otherhouses but had grown up there like a big, brown mushroom. It was reached by along, green lane and almost hidden from view by an encircling growth of youngbirches. No other house could be seen from it although the village was just over thehill. Ellen Greene said it was the lonesomest place in the world and vowed that shewouldn't stay there a day if it wasn't that she pitied the child. Emily didn't know she was being pitied and didn't know what lonesomenessmeant. She had plenty of company. There was Father-and Mike-and Saucy Sal. The Wind Woman was always around; and there were the trees-Adam-and-Eve, and the Rooster Pine, and all the friendly lady-birches. And there was "the flash," too. She never knew when it might come, and thepossibility of it kept her a-thrill and expectant