Excerpts from the Book 'The Getting Of Wisdom':

... eyes went up to the bright green flock that was passing over the garden. Now you've all interrupted, and I shan't tell any more, said Laura in a proud ...
... elsewhere.. But she sighed again, in spite of the energy of her words, and stood gazing at the place where the coach had disappeared. She was still ...
... her bright eyes first on this, then on that, brought them back to Laura and studied her up and down. I say, who on earth trimmed your hat. she ...
... than a room and had high, church-like windows down one side. At both ends were scores of pigeon-holes. There was a piano in it and a fireplace it ...
... SAYS HAVE YOU DONE EVERYTHING AND IF WE SAY WE HAVE SHE SAYS YES AND IF YOU SIT AT MISS DAYS TABLE MISS DAY SAYS IT. AND SOMETIMES WE HAVEN'T BUT WE ...
... in her hand. Laura gathered that her companion had combined the task of calling for her with a morning's shopping, and that she had only worked half through ...
... over to be sure of them-and all but yawned her head off, with ennui. But time passed, and passed, and nothing happened. She was on the verge of tears, ...
... her heart Laura prepared to obey. On the fatal morning she dawdled as long as possible over her mending, thus postponing dressing to go out till the others ...
... her. It was only yesterday I wanted to look at some embroidery on her apron-a rather pretty new stitch-and do you think she'd let me see it. She jerked ...
... he still did not offer to join them-could it, indeed, be expected that he would prefer her company to that of the pretty, grown-up girls he was with.- ...
... apart, oiled and anointed. You really could not treat her as a comrade her, who had reached the goal. For this WAS the goal and the thoughts of all ...
... it, if I did.. Let me see it first, was Laura's graceless reply, as she returned to her stony contemplation of the great sunlit expanse. She was ...
... she collided with Chinky, who was coming primly down. O ki, John. she greeted her, being in a vast good-humour. What do you look so black for.. Dunno. ...
... and exposure, she knew it now, were the most awful things the world held. But she had nothing handy: neither a rope, nor poison, nor was there ...
... despite her plainness, Pin actually had an admirer. True, she did not say so outright perhaps she was not even aware of it but Laura gathered from her ...
... to her liking that she even ventured to borrow it from its place on the shelf, in order to read it at her leisure, braving the chance that her loan, ...
... romance or draw the long-bow or you would be branded as an abominable liar. Whereas, as soon as you put pen to paper, provided you kept one foot planted ...
... Snodgrass. A regular talent for going blind, I call it-especially where Evelyn Souttar's concerned.. Oh, I don't think you should talk like that, ...
... ridiculous English, she strove in vain to recall jot or tittle of Oliver's relations to foreign powers.-Oh, for just a peep at the particular ...
... sixteen.-Why not go on working for your B.A.. No thanks. I've had enough of that here. And Laura's thoughts waved their hands, as it were, to ...