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CHAPTER 14

Life cannot stop because tragedy enters it. Meals must be made ready though a son dies and porches must be repaired even if your only daughter is going out of her mind.

This is brutally true. Yes. We still have to think about what to pick up in the shops on the days of funerals; we still need to carry out repairs even if someone’s dying. Bills arrive in the post alongside hospital letters. It’s jarring.

It was so easy to defy once you got started. The first step was the only one that really counted.

EXACTLY.

…and he knew more about Presbyterian theology than most ministers, which made him a terror to them in arguments.

By the way - I love Abel Gay. He’s the nicest old sinner I’ve ever encountered in fiction, and I’d must rather spend an evening with him than any of the Stirlings. And he seems to be quite a good father to Cissy, as well.

Her face looked as if it had worn out a hundred bodies.

SUCH A GOOD SATIRICAL DESCRIPTION, I’M DYING WITH INTERNAL GIGGLES-

Also, I love that Valancy tells Abel off a bit! And a minute later he treats her like an equal: “Every try [getting drunk]?” As if the scandal of a Stirling spinster getting drunk never even crossed his mind…

“Will I do?” said Valancy.

Now, I don’t think Valancy makes this decision because she wants to become acquainted with Barney. L M Montgomery could’ve done that - you know, she crushed/loved Barney, she wanted to have a chance to talk to him before she died, etc etc. But she makes that decision, to live with Abel and Cissy, entirely of her own accord, and her friendship with Barney is more because they’re thrown together than anything else. It’s just another example of her independence, and I love it.

E33 - Vp

Whitehead’s Broadbill (Calyptomena whiteheadi), family Calyptomenidae, order Passeriformes, endemic to Borneo

Oh huh! I hadn't realized I didn't post this one here on Tumblr! I finished this study in early March and have plans to have it be one of 3 pieces to go together 🙂‍↕️

Egyptian Lapis Lazuli Eye of Horus in Gold Ring, Third Intermediate Period, 1069-702 BC