Name: Beyond the Stars
Author: Eleanor H. Porter

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Eleanor H. Porter, Beyond the Stars (1909)

“ Miss Murdock rebelled then. Summoning the children before her with a sharp word of command, she said crisply:
“Children, it is high time we came to some sort of an understanding. I am not your mother. I am not even your aunt. I do not wish to hear that absurd Aunt Prixy another once. You may call me Miss Murdock, please; I prefer it. As for these foolish games, you must play them alone, or not at all. My mind—thank heaven—has been occupied with something other than amusing babies for the last fifteen years, and I positively refuse to bring it down to that level now. ”

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Eleanor H. Porter, Beyond the Stars (1909)

“ Teddy cut his finger; Budge fell downstairs; Bess upset the ink bottle upon her nightgown while insisting on writing a letter to her mother; and Belle flapped the lace curtain into the gas jet, frightening every one almost into hysterics with the blaze that followed. But in time the finger was bandaged, the bumps were bathed, the nightgown was changed, and the fire put out; then Miss Murdock went through the unusual experience of having one white-robed form after another kneel at her feet with clasped hands and tightly closed eyes for the evening prayer.
“I am not your mother. ”

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Eleanor H. Porter, Beyond the Stars (1909)

“ Miss Murdock, now thoroughly alarmed, roused the neighbors and asked their aid. Men left their work and tramped the woods and fields far and near; but in vain. At half-past four a farmer driving into town brought a story of five children plodding along the highway not far from the nearest large town; and two hours later galloping horses brought to the door Kitty, Teddy, Budge, and the twins, frightened and hungry, but unharmed. ”

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Eleanor H. Porter, Beyond the Stars (1909)

“ Before her eyes at that moment rose a vision of her friend's last letter. Mrs. Perin had written:
I should feel simply lost, Prixy, without my children. I should not know what was worth doing—all my reading, planning, studying is for them. Yesterday I finished a paper on “Play.” I am to read it before the child-study class to-morrow. You have no idea how interesting that class is—you'll find out, though, for you shall go with me when you come.
As she thought of that letter now Miss Murdock frowned. “Know what is worth doing, indeed!” ”

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Eleanor H. Porter, Beyond the Stars (1909)

“ By the time Miss Murdock had satisfactorily settled a sharp dispute as to who should have the last good-night kiss, her nerves were on edge, and her patience was strained to the breaking point. Supposing that now, surely, her task was completed, she drew a long breath and turned toward her own room. At the hall door she was arrested by an eager voice from the girls' quarters.
“We're all ready now, Aunt Prixy.”
“'Ready!'”
“Yes, for the story, you know,” explained Kitty. “Mother always tells one. You want to sit in that chair by the door, then we can all hear in the different rooms.” ”

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Eleanor H. Porter, Beyond the Stars (1909)

“ There she was plumped unceremoniously into a chair while five pair of hands attacked her coat, her gloves, her veil, and her hat; and all amid a deafening clamor of shouts and chatter.
“There!” ejaculated the tallest girl, after the coat and gloves had been tossed into one chair, and the hat and veil into another. “Now you're all fixed comfy, and mother said you were to make yourself right at home, and that we must love you and tend right up to you, because you'd be lonesome without her!”
“What'd you bring uth?” demanded the smaller boy, flinging himself into her lap. ”

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