So to entertain herself, she starts looking around at the congregation, and basically people-watching. It’s a weeknight – and Emily and Aunt Elizabeth and Aunt Laura are sitting in church at a prayer meeting. And Lucy Maud just made all of this stuff up in her head. We all may have these moments – but each of us will have a completely different story to tell. It is completely specific – there is nothing generalized about this. Emily Starr never forgot the night when she passed the first milestone, and left childhood behind her forever.Īnd so she then takes us thru what happened – step by step by step. Some of us can recall the exact time in which we reached certain milestones on life’s road – the wonderful hour when we passed from childhood to girlhood – the enchanged, beautiful – or perhaps the shattering and horrible – hour when girlhood was suddenly womanhood – the chilling hour when we faced the fact that youth was definitely behind us – the peaceful, sorrowful hour of the realisation of age. Lucy Maud starts the chapter by telling us where we are going to go: It’s deep, wide, terrifying, romantic – it’s like all of Jane Eyre compressed into one chapter. The chapter “In the Watches of the Night” is one of my favorite chapters in any Lucy Maud book ever.
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