Ethel Turner

Name: Early Morning at Brown's
Author: Ethel Turner

Early Morning at Brown's (1901)

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“Early Morning at Brown's”, published in 1901, is a work by Ethel Turner. It explores elements such as Stan, Ettie and Alfie.

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Ethel Turner, Early Morning at Brown's (1901)

“ The mite gives in at last, burrows aimlessly among the clothes for a time, then pulls herself up on the pillow to look for fresh worlds. A rapturous sound breaks from her lips. At the foot of the bed she descries a second cot, and remembrance comes flooding to her that here is to be found Alfie, whose doings are the purest joy of her life.
"Af! Af! Af!" she calls, and in her wild excitement hits abroad with her string of heavy beads, and just catches on the head her father, who had come for a moment to the surface to breathe.
"That youngster wants killing," groans the goaded man. ”

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Ethel Turner, Early Morning at Brown's (1901)

“ Frank says angrily.
"You let us alone," commands Stan, the momentary advantage inflating him with courage and making him resolve to brook no feminine interference.
But Stan! He is five years old—he cannot be trusted yet with a knife at meals, and she, Ettie, has to cut up his meat for him; he cannot wash his face clean, he cannot fasten his own collar or tie the knot of his boots securely! What respect can Ettie have for his feelings as a man? She catches him about the shoulders and gives him a series of little shakes, just as her mother is seen at times to do. ”

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Ethel Turner, Early Morning at Brown's (1901)

“ She stretched out her arms as if to take all the table—all the world—into her sweet embrace, and she said—
"Dirlie loves everyone," which was a wonderful achievement, and the longest attempt at conversation she had yet made. The rapturous applause that greeted her made Stan turn round an inch or two; his sore little heart ached inexpressibly; he would have given worlds to have rushed round to baby's chair and put his head on her knee to be "poored" and "loved."
Then Alfie's coaxing voice was heard: he had finished his porridge, and had a slice of bread-and-butter on his plate ”

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Ethel Turner, Early Morning at Brown's (1901)

“ Then a rush down the grass—the father with the mite aloft—an immemorial custom—Alfie at his heels, Stan holding very fast his hand, Ettie with his stick, Frank galloping along, a restive steed, with the bag on his shoulders. At the gate hasty kisses for all. Then the gate bangs, and a long-legged man is running down the hill to the station, for the scream of the incoming train is already in the air. ”

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Ethel Turner, Early Morning at Brown's (1901)

“ Stan glowers at her. "She hit me first," he says.
"Stan! And you promised me so faithfully! Is this the way to be like a knight? Striking your own sister!"
"Serves her right," says Frank, who has watched the affair judicially; "teach her to mind her own business."
"Oh! oh! oh!" laments Ettie! "I'm b-b-bleeding all over, I know."
"This time," says Mrs. Brown, "I shall tell your father, Stan. Your promises are useless, and I cannot take them again. What sort of a man will you make? The boy who strikes a girl will grow into a cowardly, mean fellow."
"She hit me first," says Stan doggedly. ”

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Ethel Turner, Early Morning at Brown's (1901)

“ He is forced to fortify his position against the siege by wrapping his head up in the bedclothes; eager fingers pick and pull and drag, he hears panting breath that testifies to the labour going on; he dozes again, dreaming pleasantly that he has been buried alive, but that willing hands are digging away to get him out. ”

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Ethel Turner, Early Morning at Brown's (1901)

“ She tries to snuggle the warm, small body down close to her own; she thinks longingly how sweet it would be if the mite now and again in her waking moments would consent to cuddle up sweetly and lovingly and quietly in the arms. Just as soon try to soothe and cuddle an eel! The mite's days are far too short for such foolishness; she must be up and working, working every minute that is not lost in sleep. She wriggles hastily out of the detaining arms now; she gathers up a handful or two of the bright brown hair loose on the pillow and tugs at it strengthfully ”

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Ethel Turner, Early Morning at Brown's (1901)

“ But in her haste to return to dressing the little ones she says nothing of this at the moment, and Ettie continues to esteem and pity herself hugely, and Stan's heart swells at the injustice that never even inquires if Ettie is to blame.
"Why can't you try to be manly like Frank?" ”

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Ethel Turner, Early Morning at Brown's (1901)

“ And I've got to sew a button on your singlet, mamma says. Stand still, and I won't prick your neck."
But Stan put the whole width of the room between them. "Go away; g-g-go away," he stuttered. "I won't have a b-button on, I won't have a c-clean coat." An undying resolve arose in him to go in a dirty coat all the rest of his days, and for ever without a singlet-button, rather than be helped to them by the worker of his woe.
Then Ettie remembered the quarrel and put out a loving arm. "Why, Tippy," she said, "you're not going to be cross any longer, are you? Kiss Ettie and be a good boy." ”

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