Olive Higgins Prouty

Name: The Star in the Window — Chapter 6
Author: Olive Higgins Prouty

The Star in the Window — Chapter 6 (1918)

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“The Star in the Window — Chapter 6”, published in 1918, is a work by Olive Higgins Prouty. It explores elements such as Reba, Pattie and Main Street.

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 6 (1918)

“ Surely Cousin Pattie's words were those of a tempter, who would persuade Reba from her straight and difficult path. She would try to forget them. But even in her attempt and while she repeated the words of her favorite hymn, "My Savior, as Thou wilt," her eyes would be seeing Cousin Pattie's symbols—the dead tooth, the silent bell, the pool, the cowardly woman hiding underneath a cross. Her fingers would feel the scarab.
The next morning, after a night of restless sleep, Reba started out for a walk. She could always think best when she was walking. ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 6 (1918)

“ It was there in the cemetery, among all the dead people buried underneath the snow, that, out of its darkness and confinement, Reba's soul was born anew—a small flickering little thing at first, wavering between light and darkness for days after its first moment of self-realization, but a spark of life, small and weak as it was, that persisted in existence and cried out night and day for nurture and tender ministration. ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 6 (1918)

“ A little out of the town, there was the railroad station called "the depot," built of wood, painted dirty gray, by which express-trains whizzed at a terrific speed with merely a shrill whistle in way of recognition. There was a river, too; so of course there were mills in Ridgefield.
This morning Reba hurried past the mills, across the river, along Main Street, by the last church on Main Street, by the last garage, by the granite post that marked the town-line at last, out into the open country. She had no plan, no destination in mind when she set out. ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 6 (1918)

“ No one had ever talked to her a great deal about her Grandfather Jerome. The members of the household in which she had grown up were chary of paying tributes of praise to anybody—dead or alive. The monument, which Reba's grandfather himself had erected before he died, had been to Reba simply a high shaft of granite. ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 6 (1918)

“ Steam-power and electric, even one's two feet, could bring Cousin Pattie nearer to lavender Austria, green Italy or lemon-colored China, but there were no railroads—no tickets issued—for the regions Reba would explore. With large sums of money, and extensive additions made of redbrick and white mortar, Reba's grandfather could realize his great desire, but Reba's was not to be bought, or lured by ambitious quarters. ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 6 (1918)

“ Reba had never been to Boston unaccompanied. She had never spent a night away from Ridgefield without one of her aunts. But it flashed across her that they might trust her for a little while to the care of an organization sanctioned by her father's support. What if they should grant her their permission? What if she had only to ask? Lessons in swimming and gymnastics! Lessons in etiquette and dancing! Every Saturday an entertainment to promote friendliness! ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 6 (1918)

“ She saw it a long way off, rising lofty and triumphant before her. The severe New England winter had succeeded in obliterating completely most of the other stones, and the few whose tops did appear had a huddled, shrinking look, like sheep in a snowstorm. ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 6 (1918)

“ If only Cousin Pattie hadn't gone to San Domingo, she might have joined her. If only she were not quite so old, she might apply at a boarding-school and assume the rôle of a young girl. If only—if only—— Thus her meditations always began, and might have continued to begin, ad infinitum, if Cousin Pattie's postcard hadn't arrived, mailed from a port Reba had never heard of. ”

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