IF my aunt, Sarah Undridge, had lived until today she would have been a hundred years old. I was at a small party given for her ninety-ninth birthday, and she was spry enough then. There was a sense of festivity. All of us who were present were ourselves “getting on,” as they say. Certainly, more years were behind us than we could expect to find before us, and I suppose it was this, as much as anything, that made us all smile affectionately at old Sarah, sitting upright, thin as a lath and rather bloodless, in her winged chair, her pale blue watery eyes looking through the window at the May sunshine falling upon the grass and the flowers and the blossoming shrubs. She at any rate was defying the years as we all in our hearts wished to do. She was like a building standing erect in a bombed city. She was a symbol, giving us hope. A vast cake had been made, and there were ninety-nine candles upon it. We knew that she would never be able to blow them out, and so a small bellows had been bought for the occasion. The cake was placed on a table in front of her chair, and a few of us lit the candles with tapers.
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Title : The Houses in Between
EAN : 9782385747978
Publisher : Librorium Editions
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: 10/4/24
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