. Emmy Lou : her book & heart . s mind. It was aconviction concerning Miss Lizzie. Near Emmy Lou in the Fourth Readerroom sat a little girl named Lisa—LisaSchmit. Once Emmy Lou had seen Lisa ina doorway—a store doorway hung with festoonsof linked sausage. Lisa had told Emmy Louit was her papas grocery store. One day the air of the Fourth Reader roomseemed unpleasantly freighted. As the stovegrew hotter, the unpleasantness grew assertive. Forty little girls were bending over theirslates. It was problems. It had been Digits,Integral Numbers, Tables, Rudiments, accord-ing to the teacher, in ones
. Emmy Lou : her book & heart . s mind. It was aconviction concerning Miss Lizzie. Near Emmy Lou in the Fourth Readerroom sat a little girl named Lisa—LisaSchmit. Once Emmy Lou had seen Lisa ina doorway—a store doorway hung with festoonsof linked sausage. Lisa had told Emmy Louit was her papas grocery store. One day the air of the Fourth Reader roomseemed unpleasantly freighted. As the stovegrew hotter, the unpleasantness grew assertive. Forty little girls were bending over theirslates. It was problems. It had been Digits,Integral Numbers, Tables, Rudiments, accord-ing to the teacher, in ones upward course fromthe Primer, but now it was Problems, thoughin its nature it was always the same, as com-plicated as in Its name it was varied. The air was most unpleasant. It took the[■44] THE SHADOW OF A TRAGEDY mind off the finding of the Greatest CommonDivisor. The call-bell on Miss Lizzies desk suddenness and the emphasis of the dingtold on unexpected nerves, butit brought the Fourth Readerclass up *« File by the platform in ordery bri?igi?ig your lunch^ Miss Yaxta^ was about to speak. EmmyLou watched Miss Lizzies lips open. Emmy-Lou often found herself watching Miss Lizzieslips open. It took an actual, deliberate spaceof time. They opened, moistened themselves,then shaped the word. [ 145 ]
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