. Emmy Lou : her book & heart . as in EmmyLous case, Emily Louise Pope MacLauren,which has its drawbacks ; for she sometimesfails to recognise the unaccustomed sound ofthat name when called unexpectedly from theplatform. For at twelve years, an Emmy Lou findsherself dreaming, and watching the cloudsthrough the school-room windows. The read-ing lesson concerns one Alnaschar, the BarbersFifth Brother; and while the verses go dron-ingly round, the kalsomined blue walls fade,and one wanders the market-place of Bagdad,amid bales of rich stuffs, and trays of goldentrinkets and mysteries that trouble
. Emmy Lou : her book & heart . as in EmmyLous case, Emily Louise Pope MacLauren,which has its drawbacks ; for she sometimesfails to recognise the unaccustomed sound ofthat name when called unexpectedly from theplatform. For at twelve years, an Emmy Lou findsherself dreaming, and watching the cloudsthrough the school-room windows. The read-ing lesson concerns one Alnaschar, the BarbersFifth Brother; and while the verses go dron-ingly round, the kalsomined blue walls fade,and one wanders the market-place of Bagdad,amid bales of rich stuffs, and trays of goldentrinkets and mysteries that trouble not, pur-veyors and Mussulmen, eunuchs and seraglios,khans, mosques, drachmas—one has no ideawhat they mean, nor does one care; on everyhand in Life lie mysteries, why not in books ?[198] THE CONFINES OF CONSISTENCY The thing is, to seize upon the Story, and tolet the other go. And so Emily Louise fails to answer to thebaptismal fulness of her name spoken fromthe platform, until at a neighbours touch shesprings up,
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