Lucy Maud Montgomery

Name: Kilmeny of the Orchard — A Sweeter Woman Ne'er Drew Breath
Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery

Kilmeny of the Orchard — A Sweeter Woman Ne'er Drew Breath

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“Kilmeny of the Orchard — A Sweeter Woman Ne'er Drew Breath”, is a work by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It explores elements such as Eric, Janet and orchard.

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Lucy Maud Montgomery, Kilmeny of the Orchard — A Sweeter Woman Ne'er Drew Breath

“ He must be taught his place. I mistrust we have all made more of him than we should."
But most of the idyllic hours of Eric's wooing were spent in the old orchard; the garden end of it was now a wilderness of roses--roses red as the heart of a sunset, roses pink as the early flush of dawn, roses white as the snows on mountain peaks, roses full blown, and roses in buds that were sweeter than anything on earth except Kilmeny's face. Their petals fell in silken heaps along the old paths or clung to the lush grasses among which Eric lay and dreamed, while Kilmeny played to him on her violin. ”

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Lucy Maud Montgomery, Kilmeny of the Orchard — A Sweeter Woman Ne'er Drew Breath

“ She sent Kilmeny off to the orchard after tea, and Eric slipped around to the house by way of the main road and lane. He and Janet together unpacked the mirror and hung it on the parlour wall.
"I never saw such a big one, Master," said Janet rather doubtfully, as if, after all, she distrusted its gleaming, pearly depth and richly ornamented frame. "I hope it won't make her vain. She is very bonny, but it may not do her any good to know it."
"It won't harm her," said Eric confidently. "When a belief in her ugliness hasn't spoiled a girl a belief in her beauty won't." ”

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Lucy Maud Montgomery, Kilmeny of the Orchard — A Sweeter Woman Ne'er Drew Breath

“ The lilies fell from her arm to the floor and she turned pale. With a little low, involuntary cry she put her hands over her face.
Eric pulled them boyishly away.
"Kilmeny, do you think you are ugly now? This is a truer mirror than Aunt Janet's silver sugar bowl! Look--look--look! Did you ever imagine anything fairer than yourself, dainty Kilmeny?"
She was blushing now, and stealing shy radiant glances at the mirror. With a smile she took her slate and wrote naively,
"I think I am pleasant to look upon. I cannot tell you how glad I am. It is so dreadful to believe one is ugly. ”

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Lucy Maud Montgomery, Kilmeny of the Orchard — A Sweeter Woman Ne'er Drew Breath

“ Come, let us go back to the orchard now. We mustn't waste this rare evening in the house. There is going to be a sunset that we shall remember all our lives. The mirror will hang here. It is yours. Don't look into it too often, though, or Aunt Janet will disapprove. She is afraid it will make you vain."
Kilmeny gave one of her rare, musical laughs, which Eric never heard without a recurrence of the old wonder that she could laugh so when she could not speak. She blew an airy little kiss at her mirrored face and turned from it, smiling happily. ”

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Lucy Maud Montgomery, Kilmeny of the Orchard — A Sweeter Woman Ne'er Drew Breath

“ All other ambitions and plans and hopes were set aside in the pursuit of this one aim, the attainment of which would enhance all others a thousand-fold, the loss of which would rob all others of their reason for existence. His own world seemed very far away and the things of that world forgotten.
His father, on hearing that he had taken the Lindsay school for a year, had written him a testy, amazed letter, asking him if he were demented. ”

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Lucy Maud Montgomery, Kilmeny of the Orchard — A Sweeter Woman Ne'er Drew Breath

“ But Eric pleaded and argued skilfully, and finally Janet said,
"Well, well, have your own way. You'd have it anyway I think, lad. You are one of those men who always get their own way. But that is different from the men who TAKE their own way--and that's a mercy," she added under her breath.
Eric went to town the next Saturday and picked out a mirror that pleased him. He had it shipped to Radnor and Thomas Gordon brought it home, not knowing what it was, for Janet had thought it just as well he should not know. ”

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Lucy Maud Montgomery, Kilmeny of the Orchard — A Sweeter Woman Ne'er Drew Breath

“ There must be, to tie you down to a place like Lindsay for a year. Take care, master Eric; you've been too sensible all your life. A man is bound to make a fool of himself at least once, and when you didn't get through with that in your teens it may be attacking you now. ”

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