When Yankee professor Noble McEntire comes to town to research his family's past and clear an ancestor's name, Emily Becket yields her heart and jeopardizes her family's past glory
Poor Emily
Bogard drank. Soon he did feel better, warmer. When the hand touched him later, he found that he had been asleep. It was the boy again. The pea-coat was too small for him; shrunken, perhaps. Below the cuffs his long, slender, ...
“Poor Emily. I know you must miss Devon something terrible, too.” “Yeah,” I said again, starting to feel really bad because the truth was, I hadn't missed Devon at all. I turned away from her and went to look at a barge that was going ...
Emily Howland, Teacher of Freed Slaves, Suffragist and Friend of Susan B. Anthony and Harriet Tubman. ... Echoing Emily's thought , later in the evening Cornelia muttered , " That poor girl acts like a dog waiting to see if she'll get a ...
Emily had always implied to Wade that the locals didn't think much of her or her family. It certainly didn't seem that way to ... I hear someone say 'poor Emily' one more time today, I just might be sick,” another woman said scornfully.
This series tells the story of an orphaned girl using her wit and courage to face the harsh world she finds herself in. Emily grows from childhood to adulthood over the course of the three books.
Others set her a thousand miles awayby bland, icy politeness. Someyoung men about town grew oddlyfamiliar in look and manner. One of them, with whom she was totally unacquainted, spoketo herone evening in the PostOffice.