The Story Girl(说故事的女孩)
Lucy Maud Montgomery
"She was a form of life and light
That seen, became a part of sight,
And rose, where'er I turn'd mine eye,
The morning-star of Memory!"
—Byron.
TO MY COUSINFrederica E. CampbellIN REMEMBRANCE OF OLD DAYS, OLD DREAMS, AND OLD
LAUGHTER Chapter 1The home of our fathers
"I do like a road, because you can be always wondering what is
at the end of it."
The Story Girl said that once upon a time. Felix and I, on the
May morning when we left Toronto for Prince Edward Island, had not
then heard her say it, and, indeed, were but barely aware of the
existence of such a person as the Story Girl. We did not know her
at all under that name. We knew only that a cousin, Sara Stanley,
whose mother, our Aunt Felicity, was dead, was living down on the
Island with Uncle Roger and Aunt Olivia King, on a farm…