Genre Fiction. Page - 621
A young gril of Seven and one lives at home and when she meets her father for bible read before bed, he tells her she's to wed and wed there enemie for peace and refuse to reconsider her wants or happiness and that she weds tomorrow at midnight. And she's to leave as soon afther consamation has been completed! ?????????
i felt a cold breeze blow by me as fast as the speed of light.as soon as i walked into this room i kew some thing was wrong.but instead of following my gut instink i keept going. i moved out every thing that was in here and moved all my stuff in. and now i think im going to regret it."cade"called my dad comming up the stairs"dad no..........."
Mrs White had had several children before the birth of this one, but they had all died. This makes her quite determined to make sure that this one survives. She was telling a visitor that she thought of calling the baby Annie, in honour of the visitor, but she had just been saying how much she loved white lilacs, and her husband had brought a branch of it over from a nearby village. So the visitor said, call her Lilac White, as there were already too many Annie Whites in the village. Unfortunately the father dies shortly after, and the mother has to bring the child up on her own.
Now she is twelve, and a pretty child. A visiting artist asks if he may put her in one of his pictures. Lilac goes off with her cousin Agnetta, who believes she needs a new hair-do. Needless to say, the result is not attractive to the artist, who now refuses to put her in the picture.
Other characters in the story are Uncle Joshua, who is a good and well-loved man, and Peter, probably in his late teens, who is a farm worker, well-intentioned but clumsy. A big event in the village is May Day, and there is rivalry among the girls about which of them shall be Queen of the May. It is Lilac. Yet that very day her mother is taken ill and dies. She is taken to their home by a farmer and his wife, and taught the dairymaid arts such as butter and cheese making. In those days a girl such as Lilac would hope to be taken into domestic service and trained up to such high levels as house-keeper or cook. Lilac has some opportunities--will she or won't she take them up? A lovely book that takes us back to long-gone days in the pastoral England of the 1850s.