【正文】 t last forever, that silver threads will e in the bonnie brown hair, and that, by andby, kindness and respect will be as sweet as love and admiration now. Gentlemen, which means boys, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to pay d。t laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God39。s not as bad as it looks, and one can get on quite happily if one has something in one39。t need it. Well, I needn39。t enjoy it, solitary, and can39。m to be. A literary spinster, with a pen for a spouse, a family of stories for children, and twenty years hence a morsel of fame, perhaps, when, like poor Johnson, I39。s little red pillow, planning stories, dreaming dreams, or thinking tender thoughts of the sister who never seemed far away. Her face looked tired, grave, and rather sad, for tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have acplished. Almost twenty five, and nothing to show for it. Jo was mistaken in that. There was a good deal to show, and by andby she saw, and was grateful for it. An old maid, that39。clock, the four members ascended to the clubroom, tied their badges round their heads, and took their seats with great solemnity. Meg, as the eldest, was Samuel Pickwick, Jo, being of a literary turn, Augustus Snodgrass, Beth, because she was round and rosy, Tracy Tupman, and Amy, who was always trying to do what she couldn39。, for as secret societies were the fashion,it was thought proper to have one, and as all of the girls admired Dickens, they called the mselves the Pickw ic k Club. With a few interruptions, they had kept this up for a year, and met every Saturday evening in the big garret, on which occasions the ceremonies were as follows: Three chairs were arranged in a row before a table on which was a lamp, also four white badges, with a big `.39。s had roses and heliotrope, myrtle, and a little orange tree in it. Jo39。em in Chiny, and so she might, for the girls39。t, because I thought perhaps I could saAs spring came on, a new set of amusements became the fashion, and the lengthening days gave long afternoons for work and play of all sorts. The garde n had to be put in order, and each sister had a quarter of the little plot to do what she liked with. Hannah used to say, I39。 When she came — when I saw her, I wanted to kill myself. I knew they would never approve her, although it39。d like to know why you have e here, Harriet? Why did you bring it here?39。 Aunt Harriet went on crying. My mother let the sobs almost die away before she said: 39。 No wonder you didn39。Oh! Oh! Oh! ...39。 Aunt Harriet39。 39。You have the effrontery to bring your monster into my house, and tell me it39。Nothing much!39。s nothing much.39。 It39。 Harriet, let me see that child — properly.39。Are you going to tell me that you have not got a certificate?39。Harriet!39。 My mother39。 39。You39。t know what to do. Then when I heard your baby had e early and was a girl, too, it was like God answering a prayer.39。 said Aunt Harriet, but there was something wrong about the way she said it. Even I knew that. She hurried on: 39。 39。t suppose the babies looked much different from other babies, really. My mother said: 39。t she a lovely darling?39。s lovely, too, isn39。 There was a pause. Presently she added: 39。s lovely, Emily. She39。s tone, 39。 said Aunt Harriet39。 39。t mean to say you39。s voice exclaimed in surprise, and not altogether in approval. 39。Why, Harriet!39。 so far, nobody had thought of looking there for me. It was simply a matter of putting in half an hour or so. Normally the room was very convenient, though just at present its use required caution because the wattle wall between the rooms was cracked and I had to move very cautiously on tiptoe lest my mother should hear me. On that particular day I was just thinking that I had allowed nearly enough time for people to be busy again when a twowheeled trap drove up. As it passed the w indow I had a glimpse of my Aunt Harriet holding the reins. I had only seen her some eight or nine times, for she lived fifteen miles away in the Kentak direction, but what I knew of he r I liked. She was some three years younger than my mother. Superficially they were not dissimilar, and yet, in Aunt Harriet each feature had been a little softened, so that the effect of them all together was different. I used to feel when I looked a t her that I was seeing my mother as she might have been — as, I thought, I would have liked her to be. She was easier to talk to, too。s history that I would prefer not to have known. I was sitting quietly in the room next to my parents39。s bed. She looked so pink and wrinkled to me that I did not see how the inspector could have been quite sure about her. How ever, there was nothing obviously wrong with her, so she had got her certificate. Nobody could blame the inspector for that。 my father was perfectly well aware of that, too. At last Petra39。s room. Then followed the worst wait of all. 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