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The book was shock ing, but the truly shocking thing was how absolutely Hagar had disobeyed. Miss Serena s soul was soft as wax, pliant as a reed to the authorities her world ranged before her. By an inevitable reaction stiffness showed in the few cases where she herself held the orb of authority. To be disobeyed was very grievous to her. Where it was only negligence in regard to some command of her own, direction to a servant, com mands in her Sunday-School class, she had often to put up with it, though always with a swelling sense of injury.
And, indeed, as the moments passed, the heavy, painful feeling about her heart went away. The doctor had said and grandmother had said, and Uncle Bob and Phoebe and every one . The raspberries. She in stantly visualized one of the blue willow saucers filled with raspberries, carried in by herself to her mother, at supper- time. Yarrow was in bloom and Black-eyed Susans and the tall white Jerusalem candles. Coming back she would gather a big bouquet for the grey jar on her mother s table. She grew lighthearted.
They always talked of her as “playing, ” and she herself repeated the word. “May I go play awhile on the ridge? ” “I reckon so, Gipsy. Wear your sunbonnet and don’t get into any mischief. ” At the overseer s house she stopped to talk with Mrs. Green, picking pease in the garden. “Mahnin, Hagar, ” said Mrs. Green. “How s yo ma this mahnin? ” “I think she s better, Mrs. Green. She laughed a little this morning. Grandmother let me stay a whole half-hour, and mother talked about her grandmother, and about picking up shells on the beach, and about a little boat that she used to go out to sea in.