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The Solitary Summer
·
Elizabeth Von Arnim
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This
is
their
favourite
topic
of
conversation
in
this
particular
place.
Just
as
I
have
special
times
and
places
for
certain
books,
so
do
they
seem
to
have
special
times
and
places
for
certain
talk.
The
first
time
I
took
them
there
they
asked
me
what
the
mounds
were,
and
by
a
series
of
adroit
questions
extracted
the
information
that
the
people
who
had
been
buried
there
were
now
angels
(I
am
not
a
specialist,
and
must
take
refuge
in
telling
them
what
I
was
told
in
my
youth),
and
ever
since
then
they
refuse
to
call
it
a
graveyard,
and
have
christened
it
the
angel-
yard,
and
so
have
got
into
the
way
of
discussing
angels
in
all
their
bearings,
sometimes
to
my
confusion,
whenever
we
go
there.
"But
what
are>
angels,
mummy?"
said
the
June
baby
inconsequently
this
afternoon,
after
having
assisted
at
the
discussions
for
several
days
and
apparently
listening
with
attention.
"Such
a
silly
baby!"
cried
April,
turning
upon
her
with
contempt,
"don't
you
know
they
are
lieber
Gott's
little
girls?"
Now
I
protest
I
had
never
told
those
babies
anything
of
the
sort.
I
answer
their
questions
to
the
best
of
my
ability
and
as
conscientiously
as
I
can,
and
then,
when
I
hear
them
talking
together
afterwards,
I
am
staggered
by
the
impression
they
appear
to
have
received.
They
live
in
a
whole
world
of
independent
ideas
in
regard
to
heaven
and
the
angels,
ideas
quite
distinct
from
other
people's,
and,
as
far
as
I
can
make
out,
believe
that
the
Being
they
call
lieber
Gott
pervades
the
garden,
and
is
identical
with,
among
other
things,
the
sunshine
and
the
air
on
a
fine
day.
I
never
told
them
so,
nor,
I
am
sure,
did
Seraphine,
and
still
less
Seraphine's
predecessor
Miss
Jones,
whose
views
were
wholly
material;
yet
if,
on
bright
mornings,
I
forget
to
immediately
open
all
the
library
windows
on
coming
down,
the
April
baby
runs
in,
and
with
quite
a
worried
look
on
her
face
cries,
"Mummy,
won't
you
open
the
windows
and
let
the
lieber
Gott
come
in?"
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